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it is to be feared, died from want of nourishment, or, falling into 
the water from exhaustion, were drowned, as was actually witnessed 
in one instance at Carrow. In this case, the bird was seen to 
alight, again and again, upon any projecting branch or rail above 
the rushing waters, and as one after another of these became sub- 
merged it still pursued its course down stream till, at last, scared 
and exhausted, it fell backwards with a sharp cry, and was swept 
away by the torrent. One birdstuffer, alone, in Norwich had about 
twenty brought to him during the month of November, and chiefly 
in the Aveek of the floods. 
December. 
Little Auks. One was brought into Norwich to be stuffed on 
the 3rd, and on the lGtli another was picked up at Salthouse, and 
a third at Northrepps on the 18th. 
Puffins. Two birds of this species were sent up to Norwich 
on the 4th of December. 
Stonechats in Winter. On the 7th of December a birdcatcher 
brought me a young male Stonechat alive, but which lived only a 
day or two in my aviary and I saw two, in exactly similar plumage, 
in a birdstuffer’s shop on the 1 9th of the same month. 
Large Arrivals of Fieldfares and Redavings. A very 
unusual number of Redwings were observed at Overstrand and 
Northrepps, and a good many Fieldfares on the 10th and 11th of 
December and between the 18th and 20th, through the severity of 
the weather, both Redwings and Fieldfares, but particularly the 
latter, appeared in considerable numbers in and around Norwich,- — 
indeed in most parts of the count}'-, — devouring every berry they 
could find, and eating their way southwards when such food failed 
them here. The main body had passed on by the 21st, leaving 
only, like an army in retreat, the wounded and sick behind, most 
of which were either stoned by the boys or died from exhaustion 
in a shocking state of emaciation. 
Crossbill. I saw a single red male Crossbill, killed about 
tho 18 th. 
Hawfinches. During this month I was shown some nine or ten 
specimens killed in different parts of tho county. 
