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IV. 
ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES AT CLEY AND ELAKENEY, 
SEPTEMBER 3rd TO 19tii, 1884. 
By F. D. Pom^er. 
Read z’^th January, 1885. 
Having, with ray brother, G. E. Power, spent a fortnight’s holiday, 
in the month of September, collecting at the above places, a record 
of the result, in many respects noteworthy, will, I feel sure, prove 
of interest to ornithologists generally, and more especially to those 
residing in Norfolk. 
The first few' days of our stay w'erc w'et and stormy ; hut the 
weather on the whole Avas extremely fine, Avith a remarkable 
prevalence of easterly and northerly Avinds. To these prevailing 
Avinds must be attributed the occurrence of so many species, for Ave 
observed no loss than one hundred and nine; several of these 
being of irregular and uncertain appearance ; Avhilst two, the 
Barred Warbler (Si/loia nisoria) and Icterine Warbler {Hypolais 
icterina), are so rare that these specimens represent, I am informed, 
the third examples of each obtained in Britain. 
To Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun., and Mr. H. E. Dresser, I am 
indebted for the names of such as I Avas puzzled Avith, or in doubt 
about ; Mr. Dresser also having further interested himself in the 
matter, by exhibiting the S. nisoria and H. icterina at the meeting 
'of the Zoological Society, on the 4 th November. 
With the exception of one day (the 5th September), on Avhich 
there Avas a passage of Waders along the coast for a feiv hours, our 
most profitable collecting-ground Avas among the various patches of 
short cover on the north side of the harbour and at the foot of the 
sand-hills to the Avest. In this cover we noted the folloAving 
species, named in order of abundance : — Blue-throated Warbler, 
Whcatcar, Redstart, Whinchat, IMeadoiv Pipit, Garden Warbler, 
