lo8 MR. II. Stevenson’s ornithological notes. 
Higlit seems to have come about the 24th ; a single bird was found 
dead at Northrepps on the 26th, having flown against a building 
in the night. Several Short-eared Owls appeared in Yarmouth 
market during this month ; Snipe not plentiful ; a few Dunlins on 
Breydon on the 12th, and a Purple Sandpiper was shot there on the 
13th; a Water-rail was taken alive on board a boat off Yarmouth 
on the 12th; on the 24th a flock of about fifty Golden Plover 
passed inland at Northrepps going west. 
Migrants. Hooded and Carrion Crows still arriving at 
Yarmouth between the 1st and 6th. A Grey Crow shot on the 25th 
had the mandibles twisted like a Crossbill. Two Swallows were 
seen at Northrepps as late as the 16th; a good many Cole Tits 
were seen in plantations on the Caister road, near Yarmouth, on 
the 4th, and both these and Long-tailed Tits appeared in the same 
locality ia the previous month. A good number of Eock Pipits 
arrived about the 22nd on the walls of Breydon and the Denes. 
The following species were also identified by Mr. J. H. Gurney, 
Jun., by wings sent of specimens killed at Lynn Well lightship, 
between the 4th and 9th of this month : — Thrushes (twelve), 
Eedwing, Chaffinches (ten). Blackbird, Snow Bunting (four), 
AVheatear, Brambling, ITee Sparrow, Pieldfares (four). Knot Sand- 
pipers (four). Storm Petrels (six). Jack Snipe, Dunlin Sandpipers 
(three). 
December. 
Eider DtrCii. The chief ornithological event of the winter was 
the appearance of some half dozen, and probably more, of 
this species, all, so far as I could learn, either adult females or 
immature birds. It was not till tlie 2nd of December that I 
learnt from IMr. G. Smith of Yarmouth, a female Eider had been 
seen, but not shot, on Elegg Burgh Broad on the 22nd of November, 
and this probably marks about the date of arrival of these birds 
on our coast. A part, evidently when shot at and dispersed on 
Breydon, passed inland, and frequented fresh waters for a time. 
This seems apparent from the fact that an adult female, said to 
have been seen, with others, in the same locality, was killed with 
a stone on the 11th of December, upon a small stream near 
Hellesdon mills, near Hotwich, and like the one to be next 
Ihentioned was said to have been strangely tame. This 
