125 
T- ho 1 artridges do not seem to have suffered, owing probably, as 
Mr. Purdy suggests, to the fences being comparatively open, not 
blocked with drift snow, and the absence of wind with the 
frost. 
Amongst the more important specimens recorded in the 
‘Zoologist’ for 1880 (p. 49) by ^fr. T. E. Gunn, birdstulfer, 
of Norwich, as having passed through his hands in 1878 (not 
included in my previous “Notes”), are a Lesser Spotted Wood- 
pecker, shot at liaveningham, Norfolk ; another seen with it 
at tlio time. A female Little Bustard, shot at Caister, near 
larmouth, on the 12th of September; two or three specimens of 
tlio Kentish Plover from Breydon, in October, and a Temmi.vck’s 
Stint on August 24th; an adult male Night Hero.v, killed at 
Mendham, near Ilarleston, on tlio 10th of May; a female 
Gull-rilled Tern, shot on Breydon, on the 8th of May; and, at 
tlio same time, another example of the same species, which unfor- 
tunately was not preserved. 
XIIL 
OBNITirOLOGICAL NOTES FOP 1879. 
By Henry Stevenson, F.L.S., Y.P, 
Read ^th April, i88o. 
i\[Y journal for 1879, during something more than the first half 
of the year, seems less like a record of Ornithological occurrences, 
than a meteorological register, and that of the most dismal kind’ 
Mith the exception only of a few mild days in February and 
iAfarch, frost and snow, more or loss severe and deep, continued 
into ]\ray (snow foiling heavily in some parts of the county on 
the 1st) ; and a cold, cheerless June, varied only by severe thunder- 
storms and drenching rain, was followed by such a downpour in 
July as caused floods throughout the county, scarcely less extensive 
and disastrous than those of November, 1878. In a season 
