MR, II. Stevenson’s ornithological notes. 131 
Land-rail. Two of those bird.s were picked up dead, this 
month, under the telegraph wires, one near Norwich on the 9th, 
the other at Brandon on the 12th, killed, most probably, on their 
migratory arrival, as on the 13th one was caught alive in the west 
porch of Cromer Church, and about the same date Mr. J. II. Gurney, 
Jun., saw one flying over a road at Northrepps. One said to have 
appeared at Clippesby, near Yarmouth, on the oth, and another at 
Winterton on the 9th. 
Hoopoe. One was shot at llan worth, near Cromer, on the 10th ; 
and I may also record one shot at Lowe.stoft on the 25th of April. 
"Waders. Of those spring migrants, an adult Kentish Plover 
was shot on Broydon on the 3rd, and another on the 9th ; and I 
saw a Black-tailed Godwit on the 12th, and one or two Bar-tailed, 
in change, Sanderling assuming summer idumage, IGth and 21st. 
Three line Turnstones, 21st, and several good Black-breasted Grey 
Plover. On the 20th I saw, on Cromer beach, a single Whimbrel 
wonderfully tamo, and two from Yarmouth on the 21st: one was 
shot at Y’^armouth, April 12th, a very early date, A Land 
Dotterel was shot at llalvergate on the 9th, in immature plumage, 
and two adults seen. Six Knots in good red plumage were killed 
on Broydon on the 30th. 
Spoonbill, Two seen on Breydon on the 1st, but not shot. 
Avocet. Two seen on Broydon on the 9th, and one shot 
Green Woodpecker. The abundance of this species, in 
certain favourable and wooded localities, is pretty well established 
by the fact, that a thoroughly reliable authority informs me, that 
in the middle of ^lay, between Norwich and Thurning, where he 
went Kook-shooting, and returning by Ilaverland and Swaiinington, 
he saw not less than a score of these birds. 
"Wood Pigeons and Turtle Doves. This summer a pair of 
Wood Pigeons and a pair of Turtle Doves nested in !Mr. C. Barnard’s 
garden, next Park Lane, on the Unthank’s Koad. I have never 
known the Wood Pigeon nest so near the city before ; but as fiir 
back as 1850, I remember Turtle Doves nesting in the Wilderness 
garden on Bracondale. 
Aviary Notes. Por the first time a pair of Twites nested and 
hatched young in my aviary ; and a young Skylark was hatched on 
the same day. These were not reared, however, from the difficulty 
of supplying any suitable food for the nestlings that would not be 
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