Sanderling. . An adult bird, shot at Yarmouth on the lltli -was 
still in full winter plumage, not a feather indicating the spring 
change of colour. 
Singular Habit in a Blackbird. A cock Blackbird which 
had a nest this month in my neighbour’s garden, used constantly, 
whilst his mate was sitting, to perch on a projecting part of the 
stone parapet of the house fronting the public road, and from 
thence pour forth his song, apparently as much at home in that 
novel situation as a Starling would be. 
May. 
Magpie. About the first week in May a single Magpie was 
seen on a fence in the Earlham Helds, within a mile of the city. 
Waders Killed in tiie “ Close-time.” About the first week 
in this month two Avocets and a White Stork were sent up to 
Norwich from Yarmouth. An Avocet was seen about the samo 
time (probably one of those killed), feeding by the margin of a 
brackish pool near the fishing-pier at Lowestoft, and on the 8th of 
June another was shot on Breydon. 
Marsii Harrier. This species, the very “ genius loci in former 
days,” as Bioliard Lubbock termed it, is not quite extinct in our 
Broad district as a resident. On the 9th of May, at Itanworth, 
one was seen by my informant to seize a duckling, about five 
weeks old, within a comparatively short distance of where he was 
standing, and no doubt, from the boldness of the swoop, the bird 
had a nest close by. The same bird, or its mate, Avas seen shortly 
before to carry olf a Lapwing from a field in the same locality, 
where a labouring man Avas at Avorlc. Four eggs of this species 
Avere taken from a nest in that neighbourhood earlier in the 
season. 
Ospreys. An Osprey Avas shot at Gimingliam, in this county, 
on the 2nd of May, and on the 13th an adult femalo, at the 
Hempstead ponds, near Holt. On the 19th another Avas seen in 
the samo locality, and again on the 25th and 2Gth. 
Little Woodpecker. One shot near Hiss about the last Avcck 
in this month. 
