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Raptorial Migrants. On the lOtli of February a Rough- 
legged Buzzard was seen at ISTorthrepps flying inland, and a 
Common Buzzard appeared in the same locality on the 5th of 
INfarch. On the 16th of March a young male Kite, a rare species 
now in Korfolk, was trapped at Korthrepps after frequenting the 
neighbourhood for some three weeks. The bird was in good condi- 
tion, though in rather worn plumage, and was altogether some- 
what light-coloured. A female Hobby was shot at Sparham on 
the 3rd of April; and on the 8th of Juno a Short-eareJ Owd M'as 
seen at Korthrepps, a most unusual date, unless the bird had 
remained to breed somewhere in the county. klr. J. H. Gurney, 
jun., has also recorded in the ‘Zoologist’ for 1879 (p. 490), an 
“ extraordinary assemblage” of this species on the Beacon Hills, 
near Cromer, on the 6th of Kovember, when, from the open heath 
and brakes, and from clumps of young Scotch firs, forty or fifty 
were flushed in one afternoon. About this date a fine adult 
Merlin was seen at Beeston, near Cromer ; and Mr. J. H. Gurney 
informed me of an apparent immigration of Barn Owls on the 
same part of the coast. On the 7th a small Owl, species not 
identified, was seen in the Cottage Wood at Northrepps, and, on the 
12th, four Short-eared Owls were flushed on Roughton Heath. A 
fine young female Sea Eagle, of course announced in the local and 
other papers as a Golden Eagle, was shot near the Heath House at 
Holt on the 13th; an adult Peregrine at Brandon on the 18th, a 
young female on the 29th at Holkham, and two others in the 
county early in the month. 
Mr. T. E. Gunn recorded, in ‘ Land and Water,’ an adult female 
Hen Harrier as shot on the 12th of November, near Mile End Lane, 
close to the city ; and I saw a young bird of the same species which 
had been shot early in December. 
Arrival and departure of migrants, as observed at 
Northrepps and Norioicli. 
September 7th. Swift last seen at Norwich. 
,, 7th. Blackcap at Northrepps. 
„ 12th. A very considerable flock of Lapwings seen to 
alight in the Buckenham marshes, near the 
Yarmouth Line, towards sun-down. 
