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Late appearance of the Nightjar and Hoube Martin. 
A nightjar was shot at Iliekling on the Gth of November, an 
unusually late date for that species, and a single house martin was 
seen at Keswick on the 20th, and two at Thorpe, near Norwich, 
on the 23rd. 
Sandwich Tern. An immature specimen was shot at Yarmouth 
on the 20th of October. 
Little Gull. Several of these small gulls seem to have been 
observed, and specimens obtained, along the east coast this autumn, 
from the Humber, southwards. Four were shot from the beach at 
Yarmouth between the 18th and 30th of October. 
Bed-necked and Sclavonian Grebes. Mr. T. E. Gunn 
records in the ‘Zoologist’ (p. 4790), four red-necked grebes sent 
him to be stuffed, one in October and three in December, three 
from the neighbourhood of Yarmouth, and one from Sheringham. 
An adult female killed on Breydon, on the 30th of October, was 
in nearly full summer dress. An immature Sclavonian grebe was 
obtained as far inland as the river side at Earlham bridge, near Norwich. 
The Eastern Golden Plover fCharadrius f ulcus ) in Norfolk. 
To Mr. Edward Bid well and Mr. H. E. Dresser we are indebted 
for the identification of a single specimen of this rare European 
plover which was sent up to Leadenhall Market from Norfolk, with 
a lot of golden plover in December, 1874, and is a species new, not 
only to this county but to Great Britain. By a letter from Mr. 
Dresser in the ‘ Ibis,’ (1875, p. 513) we learn that his attention was 
first directed to the bird by Mr. Bidwell, who informed him that he 
had seen an odd variety of the golden plover in Leadenhall Market. 
He at once -went to examine it, and as before stated, amongst a num- 
ber of golden plover, recently sent up from Norfolk, be recognised 
this rarity which “closely resembles examples of C. fulviis from 
Asia, and has most of the feathers on the upper parts margined 
with yellow.” Mr. Dresser further describes this/specimen “ as 
badly damaged and, having been kept in the shop during mild 
weather for ten days, it had already become tainted,” but he suc- 
ceeded in making a passable skin of it. 
