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iS^orwicli on the 20th, and two adult males on the 27th, and 
another on the 30th. About the same date a beautiful adult male 
Sheldrake was killed at Holkham. 
GuExVT iS^ORTiiERN DiVERS, ETC. A good many Divers, but 
chiefly in immature plumage, are said to have appeared off the 
Yarmouth coast during the hard weather. A young Great 
Northern Diver was exhibited in Norwich fishmarket on the IGth, 
and another was shot at Blakeney on the 2Gth. 
Black-headed Gull. I was not aware till this and last 
Avinter, that the young of this species are found with the nearly 
complete black head of the summer plumage in December and 
January. Mr. F. Norgate on the 2Gth of December, 1878, picked 
up a young bird with blade head, barred tail, and mottled wing- 
coverts, and on the 28th saw others Avith black heads. 
February. 
Bernicle Goose. A specimen of this somewhat rare Goose, even 
in severe Avinters, Avas killed out of a flock of five, at St. Faith’s, 
near Norwich, on the 7th; and I heard of one seen at a game- 
dealer’s shop in Yarmouth, about the same time. 
Beavick Savan. a fully adult male Avas shot on Breydon on the 
10th. The feathers on the upper part of the head Avere slightly 
stained Avith rust colour. 
ScLAA’ONiAX Grebe. Mr. J. H. Gurney, jum, has recorded in 
the ‘Zoologist’ for 1880 (p. 181), the occurrence on the 17th of 
one of these Grebes, at Sidestrand, near Cromer, Avhich Avas killed 
Avith a stone as it swam about in a horse pond close to the public 
road, and not more than a quarter of a mile from the sea. 
March. 
Great Crested Grebe. A fine bird, just returned to its 
summer haunts, Avas shot on Rockland Broad, and sent to Norwich 
on the 8th. Such Avas all the protection afforded by certain ncAV 
Acts of Parliament, it being no one’s hiisiness to prosecute gunners, 
collectors, or dealers. 
Water-Rail. A Rail of this species was found dead under the 
telegraph Avires near Northrepps, and, singularly enough, near the 
spot Avhere a Spotted Crake met its death in like manner about a 
year ago. 
