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OliNITlIOLOGICAL NOTES FEO.AL CLEY-NEXT-TIIE-SEA, 
NORFOLK, 1880 and 1881. 
I!v F. 1). FOWElv’. 
Read 20 th December, 1881 . 
1 iiK following aro the more notcworlhy cuiituros and okservations 
made by my brother, G. E. I’owor, and myself, during four collecting 
trips to the above place; viz., in September ami December, 1880 
and Aiigmst and Septenilier of the present year (1881). 
Hawks. Peregrines wore twice observed in the month of 
September last year. A female bird of the year was shot liv 
inysolt on the Salthouse beach on the 21 st, and when broimht 
down was carrying a neatly plucked king Dove, of which the hLl 
only had been oaten. A few days later I saw another near 
btiilkoy , this bird being api)arently gorged with food, as it 
inoved oil m front of me for half a mile or more by a succession 
of short llights, always, however, keeping just out of gunshot. 
Ierlin. Seen on several occasions during the month of Septem- 
beiwn 1880 fii-st on the 17th; in 1881 on the 7 th of the month. 
iOUGii-LEGGED BuzzARD (1). December 2nd, 1880, my brother 
shot at and wounded a large Hawk, which ho believed to be of 
this species ; and as they were not iincommon in the county at the 
time, his surmise was probably correct. The bird was beiim 
1 mobbed at the time by four Hooded Grows. ° 
SnoRT-EARED OwLS. Four or five specimens observed in the 
montl. of December. lu e.rch case thej- started up f«m the lone 
grass on the sides of the sea-wall. ° 
Warblers &c. The congregation of these, birds in the scanty 
cover aftorded by the beach and sand hills during each September 
was remarkable, Bedstarts being far the most plentiful. Exactly 
one dozen were one day turned out of a small shrub round one 
of the sand lulls Next in point of numbers came Common 
Y lute hroats, and besides them a few Whinchats and one Blackcap 
were observed. ‘ ^ 
