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Red-necked and Gray Tiialaropes. A male of the rarer 
species, the red-necked phalarope, was killed at Yarmouth, on the 
19tli of June; and a single gray phalarope, fast assuming its winter 
plumage, early in November. 
Stilt Plover. Since I recorded last year the occurrence of 
two specimens of this rare wader, in Norfolk, one at Ingham on 
the 2Gth of May, and one at Ditchingham about the end of July, 
I have ascertained that a bird of this species, either a third 
example, or possibly the samo subsequently shot at Ditchingham, 
was observed, on several occasions, in June, in the Hellesdon 
meadows, about two miles from Norwich. Mr. John Henry 
Walter, who resides at Hellesdon, informs me, that he first saw 
the bird on the 6th of June, and described it in his note-book, at 
the time, as having “ long red legs, white body, and black 
pointed wings, about the size of a plover. It flew like a heron, 
with its legs out behind it.” Altogether he saw it about half- 
a-dozen times, always about the same locality, and could have 
shot it easily as it flew close to his boat, or when feeding on the 
land. 
Sand Martins nesting in sawdust heaps. Travellers by the 
Cambridge line of the Great Eastern Railway will have observed, 
for many years past, large quantities of sawn fir timber closely 
adjoining the Brandon Station, and which with the addition of 
huge stacks of sawdust piled up on the spot, give evidence of a 
busy trade. In these stacks of wood fibre, firmly compressed and 
consolidated by the action of the weather, sand martins have of 
late discovered a novel, and I believe hitherto unrecorded, nesting 
place. I was first informed of this curious fact, by Mr. Edward 
Bidwell in the summer of last year ; and an ornithological friend 
resiiling in the neighbourhood confirms the same from his own 
observations this season, having found the sand martins, in 
considerable numbers, boring into the firm, but easily worked 
strata of these wooden cliffs. 
Purple Heron. A young bird of the year, in similar plumage 
to the last two specimens obtained in this county, was killed at 
Ran worth, on the 10th of November, but had been previously shot 
at and wounded in the leg. 
