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Luiitiiigs wei’o seen arriving witli liedwings and Fieldfares, very 
liigh up. Woodcocks were met with by the 5th about Overstrand 
and Felbrigg and were plentiful on the coast, generally, by the 18th 
and 19th, but were not apparently noticed in such numbers, at that 
time, as on the Lincolnshire coast by Mr. Ccrdeaux (‘Zoologist,’ 
1880, p. 512). Snipe were not, I believe, plentiful anywhere in the 
llroad district this autumn, owing, no doubt, to the flooded state of 
the marshes, but the great extent of water “ out ” was fovourablo 
to tlie fowl though not to the gunners and, on the i'are, particularly 
about Lrundall, Surlingham, and Strumpshaw, I heard of Ducks in 
large numbers fre([uenting the half-submerged “ronds” and reed beds. 
October, with min on liftcen out of its thirt}'-one days, 
niight fairly be termed a wet month, commencing with so low a 
temjierature that, near Xorwich, ice was formed on tlio night of the 
3rd, wind W.N.W. 'I he 5th was steamy hot with a S.W. wind, 
and from warm showers led on to the settled down-pour of the Gth, 
and a forty-eight hours’ rain. This, with continuous wet up to the 
12th, caused flooded marshes in most parts of Norfolk, but we were, 
happily, spared the disastrous gales and floods that occurred in the 
l^lidland and Southern Counties. From the 12th to the 25th was 
sunny and mild at times but, with the wind still, for the most part, 
L.A\ . or N.L., and with the exception of a cold rain on the 20th, 
and hail, witli rain, on the 22nd, was lino dry weather without the 
snow tliat at that time fell heavily both in the Highlands and the 
South ol Lngland. In Surrey the depth of snow, on high or low 
levels, varied from 4 inches to G or 8 inches on the 19th, with seven 
degrees of frost on the evening of the 20th. 
I’ our out of the last si.x days of the month were wet, with a 
deluge of rain on the 27th and 28th. A heavy gale from the X.E. 
on the night of the 27th, stranded many vessels along the East 
Coast with the loss of eleven lives by the upsetting of the "Wells 
lifeboat, and another severe storm on the following night did much 
damage to trees, shrubs, and even plants in gardens ; the rain driv- 
ing in sheets ivith the force of the gale. Young House ^lartins 
from late nests were seen about the 8th of Xoveuiber at Harleston, 
in E*orfolk, and Hedenham, in Suffolk, and others, hovering over 
the esplanade at Lowestoft, on the 18th. 
On the 16th I received some fine Snow Buntings for my aviary 
said to be the pick of about three dozen netted at Yarmouth, and 
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