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Late Fieldfares. — Two examples of this species were remarked, 
on reliable authority, as late as the 3rd and 4th of May ; one at 
G uist and the other at Foulsham. They uttered the usual winter note 
when disturbed. A pretty variety of this bird, with the feathers 
of the head nearly all white, was shot in January, in the county. 
Little Owl. A very small owl, supposed to be Carina noctna , 
which had been seen at North repps on the 18th of May, was 
again observed near the same spot on the 16th of June. 
Pochards and Tufted Ducks nesting in Norfolk. I last 
year recorded that I had seen on one of our inland Norfolk 
meres, three pairs of tufted ducks in the first week of June, and 
that from the actions of one hen bird I strongly suspected her 
nest, or a young brood, was not far off. This season I have 
pleasure in announcing that the nesting of the tufted duck in tliis 
favoured locality is an ascertained fact, a female having been 
flushed from her nest of six eggs on the 29tli of May; two 
females and four males of this species being seen. At the same 
time and place, also, several pochards were found breeding, two 
females having broods of young ones, and one a nest of six eggs. 
Great Crested Grebe. Through the Eev. H. H. Lubbock, 
of Hanworth, I have lately become acquainted with a new inland 
haunt of this species, viz., Gunton lake, near Cromer. For the 
last three years, he tells me, a pair have nested on the lake, and 
have averaged about three young ones each season. This year the 
eggs were hard sat on by about the 29th of April; - and the old birds 
are said to arrive almost to a day in March and leave as punctually in 
September. One young one, last year, got entangled in a net, as they 
occasionally do on the broads, but was fortunately rescued in time. 
Gunton Heronry. This thriving colony continues to increase. 
At least forty birds were counted at their nests this year at the 
beginning of the breeding season. 
Strange nesting place of a Pheasant. A hen pheasant 
hatched off her brood, on the 2nd of June, in a nest made in the 
ivy growing against the east wall of Northrepps Cottage, near 
Cromer, about twelve feet from the ground, and brought off five 
chicks, two or three others being killed by the descent. 
