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Breydon. It is known by the name of Battler, or Battle-wing at 
Yarmouth. I saAv a Boyston Crow pursue and catch a wounded 
Sandpiper, which it carried off. On the shore, near Caister, we 
found a very large Fishing Frog; I should think it must have 
weighed 70 or 80 lbs. Mr. Youell informs me that during the 
latter part of the year 1819 he had seen ten specimens of the Long- 
tailed Duck, but none of them had any of the tail feathers 
elongated. Two birds of the same species, and which I saw at 
Hunt’s, had the two middle-feathers of the tail about 2 inches 
longer than the others. These birds were purchased in the Horwich 
Market in November, 1819. 
On my way to Yarmouth I saw a collection of stuffed birds at 
Mr. Crickmore’s, of Beccles. Among them was a Boiler, killed at 
Bungay about two years since. Also a Gallinule, which I have 
some suspicion may be the Gallimila pusilla of Temm., though it 
does not quite agree with his description. The throat, neck, and 
belly are of an ash colour, the sides and under tail-coverts barred 
and spotted with black and white. The back extremely like that 
of the spotted Gallinule — but the bird is decidedly smaller than 
that species. This bird was killed in the river near Beccles. 
There was also a beautiful Osprey, whose plumage had a fine 
bronze gloss upon it, and a Goosander with a fine buff breast and 
belly. Mr. Youell informs me that he has had four specimens of 
the Purple Sandpiper in the autumn of 1819. 
1820. 
January 15th, this morning, at ten minutes after seven, my 
brewing thermometer, standing on the step of the front door, was 
down to 3“ below 0. 
February 9th, I saw at Hunt’s an old male Eider Duck in full 
plumage. Hunt informed me that this bird was killed last month 
on the 27th at Wells ; there were three birds in company at the 
time. In the stomach of this bird there was a considerable 
quantity of Echini and Crabs’ claws. I also saw at the same time 
a specimen of the Glossy Ibis, which I was told was shot in the 
winter of 1818, on the marshes on the western coast of Norfolk, 
near Lynn. This bird had four transverse bars of white on the 
throat. Hunt also informed me that a Night Heron was killed at 
Mr. Coke’s in the winter of 1819. It is now in the possession of 
