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found a Wild Duck’s nest, the eggs of which were eaten by a Moor- 
buzzard, he placed a steel trap on a little hillock and put an egg 
into the water just by it; and that in this manner he caught nine 
Moor-buzzards in the same place, in the course of the spring. I 
saw a lleeve’s nest at Winterton, it was in the midst of a tuft of 
Grass, and made of line Grass. There were three eggs in it quite 
warm. A day or two before, Taylor’s boy had caught the old 
Eeeve upon the nest, and carried her to his father, who desired 
him to set her at liberty, and soon afterwards she was seen upon 
her nest again. The Redshanks are not seen in these marshes in 
the winter. 
/3 May 23rd, sent two specimens of the Tringa islandica to 
London — one to the British and one to the London Museum. 
Three more were killed May 26th. I saw at Mr. Youell’s a Bean 
Goose; the wings were about two inches longer than the tail; 
those of the common Wild Goose are about one inch shorter. 
Saw also at Mr. Youell’s a Tringa erythropus, and a T. grenovicensis, 
and a Spoonbill killed on Breydon, May 1818. jS’.B. Ducks are 
caught in the marshes by horse-hair springes | 6 | fastened to two 
sticks, and placed in their tracks. 
jS Mem. — Method of taking Pheasants by turning them up. 
May, Swifts appear. About the middle of May the weather sot 
in dry, and I saw no rain, except a few very trifling showers, till 
the 5th of September. I was absent from Norfolk from 1st June 
till August 8th. The summer has been hotter and drier, than I 
ever remember. In many places the Wheat was began to bo cut in 
July. On the 8th of August I had only two acres of Barley 
abroad. The Beans were very much burnt up — some cut in July, 
and almost all in August. The Potatoe and Barley crops very bad ; 
and many persons were obliged to give their cattle hay in August. 
In Norfolk there were a few showers, wdiich were of service to the 
Turnips, and a very violent hail-storm the end of July, which beat 
out a great deal of Wheat. The Turnips did not suffer from the fly, 
but grew very slow from the drought. The weather continued hot 
and dry till the 5th of September, on which day there was some 
rain, and many very fine showers during the month ; the Aveather 
was at the same time warm, and vegetation became rapid, almost 
beyond example. The Potatoes, which promised very badly, 
improved greatly ; and the young Wheats came up in a very few 
