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devoured by all the other birds. Young Greenfinches seem to 
thrive on the seed softened in the crops of the old birds. 
Osprey. One seen on Breydon, May 14th. 
Golden Oriole. Mr. Smith informs me a female, in greenish- 
yellow plumage, was shot at Chedgrave on the 19th. 
Harriers. An immature Marsh Harrier, with the yellow head, 
was killed at Burgh, by Yarmouth, on the 29th, and a young male 
Montagu’s Harrier at Horsey, earlier in the month. 
Nightingale and Cuckoo. The notes of these two birds were 
heard simultaneously at midnight at Northrepps on the 19th. 
June. 
Osprey. One was seen on the 1st on a Willow at Downham, 
near Brandon, by I\Ir. F. Norgate. 
Short-eared Owl. An adult female was shot at Drayton on 
the 12th; but from its worn plumage and poor condition, it had 
most likely been previously wounded, and unable to migrate. 
Garganey. Several pairs of these Ducks were known to have 
nested and had young broods in the Broad district, of the Bure, 
this month. 
White-winged Black Tern. Mr. B. C. Silcock informed me 
that when sailing on Barton Broad on the Sth, he had the rare 
pleasure of watching a pair of these birds hovering over the water, 
and occasionally settling on a post. On the 10th, a male of this 
species, and no doubt one of the pair, was shot from a post on 
Hickling Broad. It was alone at the time. When fresh killed 
the bill is said to have been brown with a tinge of lake-red at the 
gape of the mandibles, irides hair-brown, feet and legs bright 
orange-red. 
Montagu’s Harrier. On the 22nd a male of this species, one 
of a pair which had a nest this season in the marshes about 
Hickling, was shot and sent up to Norwich. It had still some 
brownish tints upon the back and shoulders, though otherwise in 
adult plumage, and some of the tail feathers, unmoulted, were 
worn to mere stumps. The female was subsequently shot at, but 
missed, as she rose from tlio nest, and four eggs were taken, but 
not all at the same time. The hen bird still frequented the neigli- 
bourhood till the beginning of July. An eye-witness tlius described 
to me the actions of these birds. The female sits as soon as the 
