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on the 17th I had three pairs of Twites from the same place. The 
males had the rose-coloured tint on the tail-coverts, and yellow hills. 
In the females the hill was greenish yellow, with a conspicuous 
dark brown line on the ridge of the upper mandible nearest the tip, 
I'hey were all taken on the borders of Breydon. A single hlagpie 
was seen at Northrepps on the 2Gth. Woodcocks would seem to 
have been extremely abundant towards the close of the month, as 
I heard of fifty-nine killed in the coverts at Felbrigg in four days. 
November began appropriately, as the first winter month, with 
a slight fall of snow by day and a sharpish frost at night, wind 
N.W. to N.E., and owing to exceptionally high tides, on the 1st, 
the marshes bordering the Yaro, particularly between Thorpe and 
Euckenham, were extensively flooded and, on the 2nd, presented a 
sheet of thin ice. After the first week, however, with rain more or 
less for a fortnight and a prevalence of south-westerly winds, the 
weather was abnormally mild, though damp and foggy at times. 
On the 20th, wind N. and N.E., we had frost, followed by snoAV 
and hail, as in London the day before and, though the wind on the 
23rd had changed to S. and S.W., the temperature Avas Ioav and 
skating good for a time. Even thus early the birds in the gardens 
seemed pinched, and came readily for scraps put out for them ; yet 
almost from that date till the close of the month it Avas so Avarm, 
Avith a S.W. Avind daily, that Thrushes Avere practising their spring 
notes. Starlings Avhistling and many of my aviary birds Averc in full 
song. 
At Northrepps, on the 5th of December, a curious contest in the 
air Avas Avitnessed betAveen a Carrion Crow and a Short-eared Owl. 
After some fifteen or twenty minutes it unfortunately became too 
dark for the result of the fray to be knoAvn but, though, at first, 
the Crow had the best of it the OavI looked like AAdnning Avhen 
last seen. Of miscellaneous occurrences, in this month, I hoard of 
about a dozen Bearded Tits and a Magpie, as brought into Yarmouth 
during the first Aveek ; and someAvhat later a Grey Wagtail from 
the banks of the Bure. 
December, keeping up the same spring-like character as the 
preceding month produced, for the most part, Avarm, fresh days, 
or Avet, steamy ones, Avith S. and S.W. Avinds. The only real 
indications of Avintcr Avere a slight fall of snoAv on the 15th, ending 
in rain, a frost on the 17th Avith thin ice and the same on Christmas 
