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MR. n. STEVENSON’S ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. 
Kite. ]\Ir. Edward Boult of Potter Ileigliain informed 
Mr. Southwell that a hue Pork- tailed Kite liew over him, about 
thirty yards high, on the 21st. 
April. 
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Summer Migrants. ChiffchalF heard, Northrepps, 4th. Wry- 
neck, Harleston, 6th. Sand Martin, Aylsham, 5th ; Taverham, 8th. 
Willow Wren, Aylsham, 11th. Eedstart (male), Keswick, 10th; 
a female caught at Hunstanton lighthouse on the 12th. Nightin- 
gale, Keswick, 18th; Aylsham, 19th. Swallow, Aylsham and 
Yarmouth, 15th. House Martin, Eaton, 25th. Cuckoo, Aylsham, 
19 th. 
Cormorant. One seen on a post in Breydon Channel on the 1 2th. 
Water-hen variety, A specimen of the so-called Hairy 
Water-hen was shot near Norwich on the 4th, and was exhibited 
at a subsequent meeting of our Society. (See paper on and list of 
similar specimens by Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun., Trans, Norfolk and 
Norwich Nat. Soc. vol. iii. p. 581.) 
Woodcock. Single birds seen at Northrepps on the 10th and 
loth. 
Hobby. One seen at Northrepps on the 19th. 
Shelduck. a pair shot on Breydon on the 12th. 
Hoopoe. One shot at Horstead on the 25th. 
Twite. A pair of these Linnets were netted at Yarmouth on 
the 15th, rarely seen there in spring. 
Common Buzzard. An adult male, ju.st beginning to moult, 
was trapped at Northrepps on the 27th, 
Osprey. Mr. G. Smith informs me he saw an Osprey in the 
first week in April, flying over the Caister marshes from the sea. 
Terns. Lesser and Black Terns on Breydon, April 30th. 
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Summer Migrants. Turtle Doves heard at Northreiips on the 
1st. Swifts, Cromer and Aylsham, 9th; Norwich, 12th. Spotted 
Elycatcher, Northrepps, 12th. Nightjar, Sandringham, 14th; 
Northrepps and Aylsham, 20th. 
Pied Flycatcher. A single bird was seen at Northrepps on 
the 9th. 
