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Common’ San’dimper. The same informant states, that lie saw 
a pair of these birds on the 17th, and another pair on the 19th, 
on the margins of two of the meres on the open heath which, from 
so late an appearance, seemed to suggest their remaining to breed. 
This species, however, has never been known to nest in Norfolk. 
Herons nesting at Hempstead. Mr. J. II. Gurney, Jun., 
records in the ‘Zoologist’ for this j^ear (p. 3G6), the fact of a single 
pair of Herons having nested for the first time at Hempstead, near 
Holt. Tlio nest was discovered in a medium-sized Scotch Fir, in 
the heart of a considerable plantation of similar trees. Attention 
Avas draAvn to the nest from one of the old birds being, unfortunately, 
found dead at the foot of the tree, with broken egg shells. The 
young were not seen. 
Norfolk Plover. I was glad to hear that this species Avas in 
some numbers about Thetford this summer, and that several nests 
Avere found on the 16th of May both on the heath and the 
cultivated lands adjoining. 
Pee-eater. The liev. Kirby Trimmer, of NorAvich, aa\ts informed 
by his brother, Avho resides at Billingford, near North Elmham, 
that, on the morning of the 19th of May, ho saAV an undoubted 
specimen of Merops apiastcr alight in, apparently, an exhausted 
state on some iron railings in his garden. After resting for some 
little time it floAV to a shrub that Avas in floAver, passing from 
blossom to blossom, as if seeking for insects and then took Aving, 
flying off in an easterly direction and AA’as not seen again. I know 
of no occurrence of this species in Norfolk since June, 1854, but it 
is Avorth notice, in connection Avith the above occurrence, that in 
the ‘Field’ of July 3rd, 1880, a male Eee-eatcr is said to have 
been taken at Beverley, East Yorkshire, on the 5th of J une, and 
that, on the 16th of August, another Avas shot at Tetney Loch, near 
Grimsby, Lincolnshire, as recorded in the same ncAvspaper for 
September 11th, 1880. 
Cormorant. From Mr. J. 11. Gurney, Jun., I learn that no less 
than three of these former residents in Norfolk appeared on the 
Broads, in the neighbourhood of Yarmouth, about the middle of 
this month. 
