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December; and throughout February, with the exception of a few 
duck and mallard and some pochards, fowl were scarce in oui 
markets. Snipe and woodcocks were equally so, and though 
a second winter of frost and snow set in about the 25th and 
lasted into March there was a dearth of all kinds of birds 
worthy of notico. Early in March, however, a large quantity of 
fowl made their appearance on Breydon, apparently waiting for 
the second batch of hard weather to “ break up” before proceeding 
northwards, and about the same time a good sprinkling of wood- 
cocks was remarked in west Norfolk. 
A single Bewick’s Swan was sent to Norwich about the middle 
of January, and a fine adult goosander, of which species imma- 
ture birds had occurred earlier in the year, was killed on Breydon, 
on the 11th March. 
Black Guillemot. An adult male, in change from winter to 
summer plumage, was washed ashore on Caister beach, near Yar- 
mouth, on the 22nd of March, during a prevalence of north-easterly 
gales, other birds — such as razorbills, common guillemots, Ac. — 
being found dead in like manner about the same time. This 
species is decidedly rare on the Norfolk coast. 
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. A bird of this species was 
observed on the trunk of a tree at Keswick on the 20th of April, 
but was not seen again. It kept near the top of the tree, and its 
tapping could be heard at some distance. About the last week in 
March another was sent up to Norwich to be stuffed, from Tibben- 
liam, in Suffolk. 
Blacktailed Godwit. Three specimens, a male and two 
females, in full summer plumage, were shot on Breydon on the 
27th of April. I have never seen this godwit so perfect in this 
stage of plumage since it ceased to breed in Norfolk, of which 
former residents examples may be seen in old Norfolk collections. 
Siiorteared Owl. A bird of this species, which formerly bred 
in this county, was received by a Norwich birdstuffer as late as 
the 3rd of May, but I could not ascertain iu what locality it was 
