MU. H. STEVENSON 8 ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. 
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Board,” thronged with feathered pensioners as in the sharpest winter. 
Tits, Chaffinches, Kobins, and Hedge Sparrows, with Thrushes, Black- 
birds, and Starlings all appeared, yet the latter, pinched as they 
were for food from this sudden deprivation of their usual diet, 
with both cold and privation, sang merrily in the intervals of sun- 
shine, and paid in melody for their “ out-door relief.” Strange to say, 
by the evening of the 10th, the large amount of snow so gradually 
accumulated, had, to a great extent, di.sappeared through a rapid 
ground thaw, without rain, and the temperature still very low. 
Shag, Another young bird, but in its second year’s plumage, 
now in my collection, was shot on the 1st of this month, on 
Yarmouth beach. 
Common Wren. A curious clustering of these tiny birds was 
ob.served at Northrepps about five p.m. on the 9th, when some six 
or eight, or more, were seen lluttcring against the kitchen window 
of the keeper’s cottage, situated amongst the plantations, and not 
far from the sea, and may have been a small migratory flock ; they 
flew off’ into a laurel bush, but disappeared later. 
Crossiull. a red-plumaged male bird was shot in a planta- 
tion at !Mousehold, near Norwich, on the Hth. 
Cormorant. Like the Shag before recorded, at Attleborough, 
a young Cormorant, green only on the back, was shot off the tower 
of Necton Church, for inland, on the 8th. The bird fell wounded, 
and severely scratched a man who seized it on the ground. 
Waders. Hundreds of the smaller Tringaj appeared on Breydon 
in the first week of !March, with some Ring Plover, and during 
the severe weather a w’eek later, more of this class of birds were 
seen than in all the winter months. Several Golden Plover, at 
this time, were well forward in summer plumage. Ruffs and Reeves 
appeared at Potter Heigham in March, but are supposed not to 
have remained to breed. 
Rough-legged Buzzard. One shot at Potter Heigham on the 
14th. 
Brambling. These birds were plentiful about Yarmouth during 
the frosts. 
Grey Wagtail. One shot at Y'armouth on the 10th. 
Wild Geese. A large flock of Geese appeared on Breydon on 
the 14th, just after the storms of wind and snow; and three Grey 
Lag Geese on the 24th were killed out of a flock of seven. 
VOU IV. 
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