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being strong from the N. and N.E. lie tween the 5 th and 7 th a 
birdstuffer at Holt had six from neighbouring localities, picked up 
dead or exhausted closo to the coast, and far inland; about the 
same time one was picked up at Hevingham, another at Sprowston, 
and another at Syderstone on the 2nd. There is also a record in 
‘The Field’ of November 23rd of a Little Auk picked up alive 
near Norwich on the 9th, but which died soon after. 
Waxwings. A Hock of live or six Waxwings are said to havo 
been seen at Southwold, near Lowestoft, on the 9th of this month, 
and though appearing in the county of Suffolk, I record the 
fact here, as I learn from Mr. Anthony Ilamond, of Westacrc, that 
ho has reason to believe some Waxwings occurred in his neigh- 
bourhood, in West Norfolk ; but I have seen no specimens in our 
birdstuffers’ hands. 
Long-tailf.d Duck. Mr. Cromer, of Beeston, had a young 
bird of this species killed on that part of the coast about the 2Gth, 
and heard of others seen. A female was sent to Norwich Market 
about the 5th of November. 
Black-headed Bunting, variety. A curiously pied specimen 
of this bird was shot somewhero in the county this month — a 
species not much given to variation in plumage. 
Kingfishers and the Floods. Amongst the minor incidents of 
the ilood3 which in November, 1878, caused so much destruction 
to property in and around Norwich, was the novel appearance of 
many Kingfishers within the bounds of the city, driven by the 
rising waters from their usual quiet haunts on the Yare and 
Wensum. For some days prior to the great inundation of the 
20th of November they, no doubt, suffered privation from the 
difficulty of procuring food, every stream being more or less turbid 
and swollen, and the powerful current in the main rivers carrying 
everything seawards. When the final catastrophe therefore 
happened, on the 20th, and the waters above the New Mills, meet- 
ing with serious obstructions, diverted their course and deluged a 
largo portion of the low-lying parts of the city, these birds, driven 
from one foothold to another, as the waters rose higher and higher, 
found at last a temporary resting-place on the roofs and upper 
window-sills of the houses abutting on the river. Most of these, 
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