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days before. In this bird there was a slight trace of black on the 
ridge at the base of the upper mandible but, in Mr. Gurney’s male, 
as before stated, the yellow colour extended to the extreme base of 
the bill. 
IMarcii. 
\ KLLOW-HAMMEU. A culious variety, just netted, was shown me 
on tlic 1st, the prevailing tints of the plumage being very light 
and, in parts, Avhito, witli scarcely a trace of yellow. 
Kittiwake Gull. A straggler from the coast, in full adult 
plumage, was picked up dead (Init in a perfectly fre.sh state), in a 
marsh at Surlingham, on the Gth. 
(Sparrow Hawk. A beautiful adult red male of this species was 
hi ought to me by a birdcatcher on the 27tli, who had secured it in 
his nets after it had struck at, and killed, two of his “call” birds. 
^Irs. Holmes of Wacton, near Long Stratton, also sent mo on the 
20tb, a young male which had killed itself by contact with a plate- 
glass window, but not, I believe, attracted by any cage bird in the 
room. 
Lesser Spotted Woodpecker. An adult male was killed near 
Letton, about the 20th of this month. 
April and May. 
Siskin variety. In ‘Land and Water,’ for April 3rd, 1880, 
IMr. Gunn records the recent capture by a birdcatcher at Eaton, 
near Norwich, of a cock Siskin with a white instead of black cap 
to its head. 
Hoopoe. One of these rarities, now-a-days, was, I learn from 
IMr. Gurney, shot at [Martham on April 2Gth. 
Eing Ouzel. An adult male with a conspicuous white crescent 
on the breast was seen on the 11th of IMay, by Mr. B. C. Silcock, 
in the parish of Brumstead. 
A^ocET. On the 12th of April a specimen was shot at 
\ai mouth, and in the second week of May I was informed that a 
second narrowl}- escaped the Yarmouth gunners, having to thank 
its own wary instincts and not the “Xew Act,” for its safety. 
HOOPER. About the 10th of ^lay a single Swan of this 
species, having put in a late appearance, was killed at Yarmoutli. 
