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Waders generally were, I sliould say, scarcer than usual, with 
perhaps the e.Kceptiou of Little Stints, which this year were 
decidedly numerous. 
The appearance of the Warbler class in the “ Scrub and cover ” 
at and near the sand-hills, was puzzling in the extreme. There 
were only two “rushes,” viz., on 7 th and 17 th, and these 
consisted chielly of Willow Wrens, which we have not met with in 
any numbers on previous occasions. Tree Pipits, usually plentiful, 
were this year represented by two specimems. Wheatears were 
plentiful ; but Whinchats and Kedstarts never more than half-a- 
dozen or so on any one day. llluethroat was never even seen ; and 
Pied Flycatcher, so comparatively common last year, was only 
observed once. Garden Warbler, so plentiful last year, also failed 
to turn up this se^vson. 
VI. 
ON THE FLORA OF THE CROMER FOREST-PED. 
By Clement Reip, F'.G.S. 
Read 26th January, 1886. 
The importance of our Newer Pliocene flora is seldom realized, for 
the plants found mostly belong to species still living in Norfolk. 
Few stmnge new forms have yet been discovered, and even the 
number of species now locally extinct is comparatively small. 
But though the flora is so closely allied to the living flom of 
Norfolk, yet its study and careful examination is of great interest. 
F'or not only does it show the persistence of a flora consisting 
entirely, or almost entirely, of recent plants through a period when 
the large mammals, and even many of the mollusca, belonged to 
species now extinct ; but it also shows the gradual change of the 
geographical distribution of plants as they are traced back through 
