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jSToi'iolk of .Sabine’s dull, of wliicli two immature specimens 
(readily distingiiislied from the Little Gull by their forked tails) 
Aveio shot at \armouth last October; and ^Ir. .Stevenson, judging 
from what had happened before, hazarded a guess that it would not 
bo long before the Eastern Counties were visited by them again. 
^Fr. .Southwell contributed some notes on the Herring Fishery of 
the past year ; and wo had a paper from .Mr. Frank Xorgato (which 
was road Ijy Mr. Goldart) on the o.'ctraord inary mildnes.s of the 
winter, as evidenced by tlio appearance of insects and bats, the 
nesting of birds, and blos.soming of flowers. This list will give a 
pretty good idea of the literary work done in the .Session, and will 
stand the tost of friendly comparison with any society in the 
kingdom. 
Our excursions during tlio summer months were four in number. 
Iho first, to Mr. G. Lewis Buxton’s, at Bolwick Hall, was a great 
success. 'Iho .Secretary and several members of the Committee 
of the National Fisheries Exhibition (which had been recently 
held with so much eclat at Norwich, and which gave a great 
stimulus to Natural History) were present, and to all IMr. Buxton’s 
lake, from which the water had been let off, and his fish-hanks, 
were an object of great interest. 
The second excursion, by invihation of ^Ir. Gurney Buxton, was 
to lelthorpo Heath. Several rare plants were met with; and 
among birds, some examples of Q-ldienemns scohiyix (Gmel.) and 
a nest of Gaprimu/ijus cnrnp(eni< (Linn.) were .seen. Mr. Bridgman 
found a Sawfly which had not been seen in Norfolk before, and the 
Iirvm of another; also three very rare Bees of the species Andrena 
Ilaftonhina from a Scabious in a grass-field (about these ho has 
given us a paper). 
The third excursion was to Horstead, to a very curious excava- 
tion in the marl there on the property of l^fr. TmfTord, said to bo 
entirely artificial. It may bo likened to a canal, the banks being 
richly clothed with trees. Nothing can exceed the .stillness and 
vm-dnro of this, one of the prettiest and le.ast-known spots in East 
Isorfolk. On the last excursion to this charming “ oasis,” on tlio 
28th ot August, 1870, Mr. Dix wrote a short paper, which has not 
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