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oil the 25 th. Migratory Waders were heard over the City on the 
nights of the 23rd and 28th, very high up, wind N.W. on the 
latter date. 
In September, the first few days, from the extreme and continued 
heat, were more trying to the sportsman than in any season for some 
years past, with the sun at 84 and 8G degrees in the shade at 
midday, and an indoor temperature, at niglit, of 75 degrees at 
times. The evenings, warm and dry, were thoroughly enjoyable. 
A change to II. and N.E. on the 6th brought a cooler atmosphere, 
and some rain, but next day the wind was again S.S.W., and so up 
to the 11th when a heavy gale and thunderstorm occurred in the 
night, with some hail. Erom this date the warm dry evenings 
ceased and, to the 18th, both days and nights were cold and damp, 
the wind mostly S.S.W. ; and intervals of sunshine were scarce 
with frequent and heavy rains. On the 19th we had another 
severe hailstorm, and then to the close of the month and with the 
wind chiefly AV.N.W. the days were fine, liot, and close, but with 
a real autumnal chill after sunset. 
With the commencement of October, Swallows and House Martins 
seemed confined to a few pairs feeding late young ones in and near 
the City but were pretty numerous at Wells next the-Sea up to the 
2nd and 3rd. The latter were last seen at Horthrepps on the 8th, 
and I saw three young Swallows at Eaton on the loth. Seveial 
Wheatears were seen at Beeston near Cromer on the 13th, and one 
at Blakeney on the 25th. Of arrivals may be noted a Eing Ouzel, 
at Roughton, near Cromer, on the 7th. On the 8th, a small party 
of Siskins appeared in my garden and seemed specially attracted 
by the seeds of the, so-called, “ iady’s-pincushion ” (Scabteus?) so 
much so that an adult male was soon caught in a cage trap, baited 
with a few of its stalks, and the bird was, as usual, tame enough 
in my aviary a day or two after. On the 9th of October in Land 
and Water ’ I observed a note that, a few days before that date, a 
Brighton fisherman caught six Siskins on his boat when about 
three miles out at sea. I found a few Brarablings close to the City, 
flushed from the side of a turnip field, on the 11th. On the 13th 
at Beeston, near Cromer, Hooded Crows were seen passing in a 
north-westerly direction, and in the afternoon of the 20th half-a- 
dozen of these birds passed over my garden going also N-W.^ At 
Yarmouth, just prior to the 19th, Hooded Crows, Larks, and Snow 
