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ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FOE 1883. 
Ey IIe.nry Stevenson, F.L.S., V.P. 
Read -^ist March, 1885 . 
Januauy. 
Oreres. An immaturo Eecl-necked Grebo wa.=? shot near 
Yarmouth on tho 3rd ; and a young Sclavonian Greho at Potter 
lleighain on tlio 5th. 
Wild Geese. On the 3rd a Pirent Goose was shot flying close 
to the houses next tho heacli at Yarmoutli ; and on the 4th a 
pair of Bean Geese at Winterton. On the 8 th seven Wild Geese 
of some species were seen to cross Breydon, possibly Pink-footed, 
as one was shot afFritton about the same time. On the 19th, 
tho Rev. E. T. Frere of Burston, near Diss, informed me that three 
flocks of Wild Geese, the largest containing at least forty birds, 
passed over that parish pa.ssing south-east. One flock came down 
low enough to ho fired at, hut without effect. An adult Bean 
Goose was also shot at Halvergate on the 19th ; and two were sent 
up to Norwich from Yarmouth a few’ days later. 
^Ierun. A female shot at Potter lleighain on the 5th ; and on 
the 23rd another near Yarmouth. 
Shelduck. One shot, and three seen, on Breydon, January 
1st, and seven wore seen on Breydon on tho 10th; two immature 
were shot there on tho 13th, and one on tho 16th. 
Short-eared Owl. Tliree were brought into Yarmouth on 
the 15th. 
Waxw'ino. Two were killed at Gorleston on the 13th, two, 
also, near Yarmouth on the 19th, and one on the 20th; and one 
at Tivetshall on the 18th; probably part of the flock that reached 
us in December of last year. 
