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Hooded Crow in Summer. Amongst the species one would 
least care to acclimatise, from its egg-stealing proclivities, the 
“ hoody ” ranks supreme, yet we seem to have yearly more and 
more evidence of its inclination to do so. On August Gth a very 
accurate observer, at Nortlirepps, saw a hooded crow drive from 
her nest a wood-pigeon, which made considerable resistance, and 
then devour the eggs. A young hooded crow, recorded by Mr. 
J. Id. Gurney, jun., in ‘The Zoologist’ for 1877, p. 445, as shot 
by himself at Nortlirepps on August 20th, having been previously 
seen on the 18th, had most probably been reared in the neighbour- 
hood, as undoubtedly were a young brood seen at Sherringham, an 
adjoining parish, in August, 1867, as recorded by myself on the 
authority of Mr. II. M. Upcher, in the ‘Zoologist,’ 2nd series, 
p. 1012, a fact which had quite slipped my memory when I 
remarked of this species in my last year’s notes, that I was not 
aware of an authentic instance of its nesting in Norfolk. 
Norfolk Plover. I am glad to report, with regard to this 
interesting species, that protection in the breeding season is effect- 
ing the desired object, and considerable numbers arc again to be 
met with in their chief haunts in this county. A pair have also 
been known to rear their young this summer in a very favourable 
locality some twelve miles from Norwich, where they had not been 
known to do so for many years. An unusually light-coloured 
variety, and somewhat undersized, was shot on the 16th of March 
at Shimpling, near Diss. 
Wild-fowl breeding in Norfolk. The early “ close time ” 
told well for various kinds of fowl in Norfolk during the past 
summer, and that not only in the strictly preserved localities, but 
in places where, hitherto, they have been much harassed. A 
considerable number of garganey were reared about Surlinglram, 
and in the same locality on the 16th August I saw a “coil ” of at 
least twenty common teal making for the Broad at sunset. A pair 
of shovellers also nested there this year, which they have not dono 
for some years. In West Norfolk, Mr. Hamond tolls me that some 
wigeon remained all the summer on the lake at Narford, and the 
gadwall bred freely in that locality. Two broods of young 
Shelddralces made their appearance on the estuary of the Lynn 
