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The Eev. F. 0. Morris, gives the following length of specimens : — 6|, 7 J, 7 J, 

 and 8 inches, see vol. ii. page 151. 



Kingfisher. The average weight of examples of this species is about 

 1 J ounces. I saw an exceedingly fine bhd on the 9th of J^ovember, that 

 weighed between If and 2 ounces. In dissecting the stomach of an indivi- 

 dual recently killed I found several small pieces of weed intermixed with the 

 other contents, these had probably become entangled with its finny prey and 

 had been swallowed together. 



Waxwing. — This beautiful and uncertain visitor occurred in some plenty 

 in IvTorfolk during the winter season of 1863-4. I then examined sixteen speci- 

 mens for preservation, which I recorded in Young England, vol. iii. pages 16 

 and 62. During the next season I did not hear of the occurrence of a single 

 bird, and only one last season, which I mentioned in my notes in the Naturalist, 

 vol. III. page 83. During the present season, they have, however, arrived in 

 great abundance ; apparently one vast flock arrived on our coast which by 

 repeated alarms and persecutions have become scattered all over the country, 

 a fact which seems pretty well proved by the numbers that have been 

 slaughtered. They appeared generally in flocks of perhaps a dozen and 

 varying to a hundred individuals or even more. The first examples observed 

 in this county during the present season, was on the 1 7th of I^Tovember, and 

 up to this date, December 31st, I have seen and heard of upwards of a 

 hundred specimens that have been captured, and have no doubt that nearly 

 as many more have been killed by persons who are entirely ignorant of their 

 value and either ate or disposed of them by other useless means. I have 

 lately ascertained that several were thrown about as useless, of wdiich I was 

 not acquainted until too late. Out of those captured I have preserved and 

 mounted as many as forty-one individuals that have passed into my hands 

 for preservation, every individual, of which, I have also separately examined 

 and dissected, thus of course affording me excellent opportunities of observing 

 their plumage, food, chief points of distinction in the sexes, and many other 

 interesting details which I will enumerate in the course of my observations. 

 I will now give a list of those I have examined : 



" No. Date 1866. 



Sex, 



Locality. 



No. of 



Wax-tips Length. Remarks, 

 on wings. In. 



1. Nov. 19, Male St. Faith's 



2. 21, Female Worstead 



3. 



Shot. 7.7 ^ 

 „ 7.7 8f Eeturn of margins on 

 primaries. 



6.4 7| 



