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further wound. Another was reported to have appeared in the 
same neighbourhood, about the same time, but was not procured. 
On the 2nd of May, Mr. J. H. Gurney, Junr., also, saw a kite 
at Northrepps, flying high overhead, in company with two 
buzzards, and pursuing a southerly direction. The time of year 
was as remarkable as the line of flight. This bird was plainly 
identified in the strong sunlight by its forked tail and peculiar flight. 
Bough-legged Buzzards, have not been numerous this year. 
One was said to have been killed at Long Stratton on the 6th of 
January, and another was trapped at Hempstead, near Holt, on 
the 8th, which contained the remains of a pheasant and a chaffinch 
in its stomach. At Yarmouth, a fine female was killed on the 
22nd, and on the 29th a specimen, which had been dead some time, 
was picked up at North repps, near Cromer. All these were in 
immature plumage. Of the Common Buzzard, I have the follow- 
ing notes chiefly from the coast near Cromer. On the 14th of 
April, one was trapped at Northrepps, and another was seen going 
south at a great height, on the 27th. The two seen by 
Mr. Gurney, Junr., on the 2nd of May, with the kite, were 
most probably of this species ; and on the 5tli of the same month 
a very dark specimen was shot at Sprowston, near Norwich ; 
and again at Northrepps, on the 27th and 30th, single birds 
of this species were observed passing in a southerly direction. 
On the 10th of November, . one was also seen at Northrepps. 
Of the Harriers, may be noted, a large white-headed hawk, supposed 
to have been a marsh harrier, which, on the 5th of May, flew over 
the Selbrigg pond, at Hempstead, causing much disturbance amongst 
the fowl; and on the 23rd of October, one was shot at Iloveton. 
Of Montagu’s Harrier, a male in change from brown to grey 
plumage was killed in this county, and sent to London to bo 
preserved, as recorded in the ‘ Field ’ of the 25th of August. 
A Short-eared Owl was seen at Northrepps as late as the 
26th of May, and another had been flushed from some rough 
ground in the same parish on the 13th of April. This bird flew 
out to sea after circling round at a great height. In the ‘ Zoologist ’ 
for 1877 (3rd series, p. 228), Mr. Gurney has recorded the fact of 
a short-eared owl being seen on the 3rd of April, at Northrepps, 
to attack a pair of partridges on the ground, the remains of some 
three or four others having boon found near the same spot, which 
