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Tho Owls, like tlio Hawks, may ho described as “various,” none 
rare, but including Barn, Tawny, Long-eared, and perhaps Short- 
eared. As to this, however, I cannot speak positively'. 
Iho small number of Curlews in such a season is remarkable, as 
also tho absence of what gunners term “ hard-weather” fowl, such 
as Goosanders, IMerganzers, Velvet Scotei-s, Scaups, Golden-eyes 
iclangula), etc., of which Mr. Belliii informed me he saw scarcely 
any. Tho number of Woodcocks killed at that time on the 
Yarmouth coast, is in no way represented by the hve-and-twenty 
in tho lists, as numbers were shot by amateur gunners, which 
never came into tho dealers’ hands. About the same time Mr. 
Greiner, of Beoston near Cromer, shot over forty Woodcocks in 
four afternoons, which he found close to his house, flying from 
place to place, and apparently seeking food. iMany of these may 
have quitted the inland plantations, but in some instances tliey 
wore seen to come from tlio seaward. Ho also shot at the same 
time a good many Green and Golden Plover. Ho heard of a flock 
of about thirty Swans that passed close to his house, but no Bucks 
or Geese in that locality. 
Of the great immigration of Bedwings and Fieldfares between 
the ISth and 21st of December, 1878, referred to in my last 
year’s “ Notes,” I have received particulars from vaiious corres- 
pondents. 
IMr. Belhn remarks the extraordinary number of Bedwings, 
I'lcldfaros, and IMisscl Thrushes, that in the first frost passed 
southward along tlie Yarmouth coast, tho flight lasting for days. 
Mr. Cremcr gives the same account at Beeston, where, as inland, tho 
Bedwings largely predominated ; they passed in a constant stream 
from east to west, the largest flights in tho evening. He shot a great 
many by standing under the fences in their line of flight, as they 
kept coming all day in the same direction. At Sherringham ' near 
Beeston, Mr. H. ]\r. Upcher says, many of these birds “were 
picked up dead, day by day, under an Arbutus shrub, as many as 
seven iii one morning ; the birds, no doubt, having crept under for 
warmth;” but, from an absence of wind at the time, these birds 
though sadly pinched for food, did not sutler as I have known 
them to do in some winters. At Feltwell, on the other side of the 
county , Mr. Upcher adds : “ birds of this kind seemed to leave 
