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MR. w. pycraft’s ornithological notes. 
Short EARED Owl (^Asio accipitrinns). 
Irom one I skinned on October 2Lst, 1887, I took several 
common Oorbeetles {Geotrapes vernalis), the stomach being quite 
filled with them. 
Eed-backed Shrike {Lanius collurio). 
In bTovember, 1883, a male was shot at Somerleyton (8th), and 
another at Oulton (12th). 
Pied Fla'catcher {Muscicapa atricapilla). 
An immature male w'as shot at Caistor on May 6th, 1885. 
Black-bellied Dipper {Cinclus ^nelanog aster). 
The ‘ Yarmouth Independent Press ’ contains the record of one 
killed at Thurgeston in the first week of November, 1885. 
Bed-spotted Bluethroat {Ruticilla suecica). 
An immature male was shot, September 14th, 1883, on the 
river Bure ; and one was caught in a greenhouse in St. Nicholas’ 
Boad on September loth, 1884. 
Black Bedstart {Ruticilla titys). 
A specimen, sex unknown, was killed at Somerton on November 
9th, 1887. 
Sedge Warbler {Acrocephalus schoenohienus). 
A male was brought to me that had been taken on the Britannia 
Pier on August lltli, 1886. 
Bock Pipit {Anthiis ohscurus). 
Fifty of these birds have been netted on the Denes this season 
by a birdcatcher. 
Lapland Bunting {Plectrophanes lapponicits). 
Two were caught on the North Denes in October, 1884. 
Sand Martin {Cotile riparia). 
A cream-coloured variety was shot on the North Denes on 
September 29th, 1886. 
Alpine Swift {Cypselus melha). 
I saw one of these rare birds on September 13tb, 1887, about 
seven p.m., with a quantity of Swifts {C. apus). It was hawking 
round Mr. Press’s dour mill, the back of which adjoins Breydon 
