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February. 
Glaucus Gull. An immature female, from Yarmouth, on the 8th. 
Grey Crows. These pests to the game preserver both here and 
in Scotland are, according to l\Ir. J. H. Gurne}^ Jun., rendering 
themselves additionally objectionable by devouring the barley 
thrown down for Plieasants. He has himself driven them off the 
grain at one or two feeding spots at Northrepps, and the keeper at 
Hempstead killed six, at one shot, that he had watched this month 
committing similar depredations. 
White-fronted Goose. About the middle of the month another 
bird of this species was sent up to Norwich, killed on Breydon. 
Bewick’s Swan. Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun., recorded in the 
‘Zoologist’ for 1880 (p. 139), the capture of two specimens at 
Hempstead on the 18th. These birds had frequented one of the 
ponds for some days, and were supposed by the keeper to be tame 
Swans escaped from other preserved waters. On this occasion, 
however, their musical notes attracted IMr. Gurney’s attention and, 
on approaching them, they rose slowly on tlie wing from the shal- 
low water where they had been standing. Owing to the closely 
surrounding timber one, in its flight, struck its head against a tree 
and fell, and on being run down and secured was found to have 
destroyed one eye j the other bird was lost sight of for a time, but 
later on was found and shot on an adjoining pond. They proved 
to be male and female and weighed exactly the same, only nine 
pounds and three (quarters, though fully adult in plumage, ihe 
disposition of colour, on the bill, also marked maturity and a sexual 
distinction -was remarked in that feature. “ In the female the yellmv 
did not extend over the ridge of the upper mandible which ridge 
was black, slightly mottled with yellow, the same part in the cock 
bird being entirely yellow.” In the gizzard of the latter, besides 
small stones, “silt” and pond grass, were found legs of Avatcr 
insects and the tail of a small fish. They measured five feet ten 
inches from tip to tip of wing. 
Of four Bewick Swans that* appeared on Breydon about the 14th 
of February three, as I was informed, Avero shot, and iMr. Gurney 
heard of one killed about the same time near Saxmundliam, in 
Suffolk. On the 28th I also purchased, in the flesh, an adult male, 
one of four that made their appearance on Bockland Broad a few 
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