MU. II. btevexson’h ounitiiological notes. 
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I'cltwcll. These two Averc adult, and lie thinks some immature 
Avith them. fortunately to make identification more sure, by 
comparison, several of our British Pied Wagtails Avere in company 
at the time, so that the difference Avas most marked. 
Waueus. Mr. Smith’s notes from Breydon and Yarmouth 
beach comprise a Little Stint on the 8th, and Pigmy CurleAv ; 
another Little-Stint on the 14th, and three next day ; and one on 
the IGth, Avith tAVO Greenshanks, a Sanderling, Buff and RecA'e, 
and a Laml Dotterel, immature, and tAvo Red Knots ; a Spotted 
Redshank on the 8th; one Woodcock seen in a garden on the 
18th ; another Little Stint on the 24th ; a Solitary Snipe Avith four 
Jack Snipes Avas shot on the 29th at Potter Ileigham. 
^IiouAToUY W’’AnuLEa8, ETC. Wlieatears at llajipisburgh, 
Korthrepps, and Overstrand on the 12th and 13th, and Redstarts 
seen ; hundreds of Chaftinches about Yarmouth Denes on the 
22nd; and on the 29th ^Ir. J. 11. Gurney, Jun., shot a Greater 
"Whitetliroat at Blakeney, and a SnoAv Bunting on the same day. 
Kingfisher. I am informed that at Iccost fifty of these beauti- 
ful birds Avere shot this autumn in the Yarmouth district, and 
though many of these Avere no doubt autumnal visitants to our 
coast, many Avould also be home-bred, and such a Avholesale 
destruction is much to be regretted, if it cannot be prcA'ented. 
Eared Greije. An immature specimen shot on Breydon on 
the loth ; and a male and female at Somerton about the same date. 
^Ierlix. a bird taken on a vessel at sea Avas brought into 
Yarmouth on the 24th. 
Goosander. Tavo early arriv'als Averc seen on Breydon on the 
25th. 
CoRAtORANT. Ill tlic ‘ Zoologist ’ for 1884 (p. 10), Mr. Gunn 
mentions four or live young birds seen in Yarmouth Roads early in 
September, and he saAv one on the' 11th about one hundred yards 
off the beach. 
October. 
Waders on Breydon and Coast. Tavo or three Solitary Snipe 
Avere shot early in the month, and a Purple Sandpiper on the 5th ; 
about forty Golden Plover seen on the 9th ; on the 12th, a Woodcock 
brought into Yarmouth alive, taken on board a fishing boat, another 
Avas shot on the shore on the ICth, and on the 22nd one created 
