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Richardson’s Skua. An immature specimen was shot at 
Blakeney about the 18th of September. 
Black and White Storks. An adult female of this extremely 
rare visitant to the Norfolk coast, was shot on Breydon Mud Flats 
on the 27th of June ; and a fine male of the White Stork was 
also shot at Burgh, near Yarmouth, on the 23rd of May. 
Spoonbill. A single immature specimen was killed at Yarmouth 
somewhat earlier in the spring than the white storks ; and another 
was said to have been seen on Breydon in the middle of September. 
Hoopoe. In my notes for 1875 — 76 (vol. ii, part 2) I referred 
to the scarcity of this species, whether as a spring or autumn 
migrant to our coast of late years, nor can I at all account for the 
change. Mr. T. E. Gunn records in a local publication a specimen 
shot at Filby, near Yarmouth, in October, 1877. 
Blue-throated Warbler. Though not actually procured in 
Norfolk, having been taken on the Lowestoft Denes, the example 
of this warbler recorded by Mr. G. Moore, in the ‘ Zoologist > 
(3rd series, vol i, p. 449) as entangled in some nets, in July last, 
is most interesting to local ornithologists, as it proved to be the 
Scandinavian form of this species, as also were, — one taken under 
very similar circumstances, and near the same spot, at Lowestoft, 
in May, 1856 ; another found dead on Yarmouth beach in 
September, 1841 ; and a third recorded in the ‘ Zoologist’ for 1867 
(p. 1014) by Mr. J. R. Griffith, of Oxford, as identified by himself 
as it alighted, on the 1st of September of that year, upon the 
rigging of the steamship “ North Star ” when off the Norfolk 
coast ; the vessel bound at the time from Christiania to London. 
Woodcock. We had no woodcocks to speak of till after the 
24th of November, when, after a long continuance of S. and S.W. 
winds, a change took place suddenly to the N. and N.W. with 
a slight frost. A good sprinkling was then reported from various 
parts of the coast, and others were met with later on. Five or six 
couples were exhibited for sale in Norwich market on the 1st of 
December. 
