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come under my notice as killed in Norfolk, or on the immediately 
adjoining coast of Suffolk, from 1850 to 1865, inclusive, showing 
the extraordinary regularity of its appearance during the spring 
months and its occasional visits in autumn. As if to contradict 
my assertion, however, that it was much too common to warrant 
its constant persecution and slaughter on our inhospitable coast, I 
am not aware of a single specimen having been procured in Norfolk, 
since that time, until the spring of this year (1875) when, as 
recorded by Mr. T. E. Gunn in the ‘ Zoologist ’ (p. 4664), a female 
was shot at Horstead, near Norwich, on the 2 2nd of April. In 
‘ Land and Water’ for July 17th, is also a notice of one obtained 
this spring at Herringfleet, near Lowestoft, Suffolk. The cause 
of its rarity on our eastern coast during the last ten years I am 
at a loss to account for. 
Nesting of the Pochard and supposed nesting of the 
Tufted duck in Norfolk. I have ascertained this summer, having 
myself found both eggs and young, that the pochard still breeds, in 
a wild state, on one or two of our Norfolk meres but nowhere in 
the “ Broad ” district. Having also, on the same waters, seen three 
pairs of tufted ducks still located there, of their own accord, in the 
first week in June, I see no reason why this species should not 
also breed with us, though I failed to discover a nest, but the 
agitation of one female was so demonstrative as to lead to a 
strong suspicion that it had a nest not far off, in the thick under- 
growth of a small island.* I may here mention, also, that I have 
two notices of widgeon flushed, in different localities in the county, 
in the middle of June; and still more remarkable, if true, yet on 
authority I can scarcely doubt, that a brood of young common 
scoters was seen on Idickling Broad throughout the summer. 
Mr. Booth, who was in that neighbourhood in July, tells me that 
ho saw some fourteen or fifteen scoters flying over that Broad 
towards the end of the month. 
Montagu’s Harrier breeding in Norfolk. An adult female 
and five young ones, which had apparently not long quitted the 
nest, were taken on the 30th July in a marsh at Upton, near Acle. 
* On the same Mere, May 29th, 187G (when these note were in type), a lien 
tufted duck was flushed from her nest, containing six eggs. Four males and 
two females were seen. 
