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Spoonbill. Colonel Coke informed me on the 29tli, that he had 
seen, that morning, a single bird of this species which had taken 
np its quarters on an island in the lake at Holkham. One had also 
been seen on Breydon, on the 27th. 
Shag. An immature specimen of this scarce bird, on the 
Norfolk coast, now in the collection of Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun., 
was caught off Beoston on the 7th of October. 
November. 
Storjiy Petrel. Two of these wanderers from the sea coast 
were brought to Mr. Cole, birdstuffer of Norwich, having been 
taken at Harford Bridges, near this city, on November 1st, after a 
smart gale from the N.W. on the previous night. 
Great Grey Shrike. Two more specimens, one from Kockland 
and one from Brancaster were sent up to Norwich on the 12th and, 
near Yarmouth, one w'as killed at Burgh on the 5th, and another at 
Or meshy on the 9 th. I saw also two others, killed during this 
month near Norwich. Both of these had fed on mice. The bird froiu 
Brancaster on the 12th is probably the one recorded in the ‘Field,’ 
of November 20th, as having a dead sparrow in its mouth. The 
same correspondent (from Titchwell) also states, in the ‘Field’ of 
November 27th, that he had since seen two others perched on a 
high fence on the road between Docking and Brancaster, about 
half a mile from the spot where the first was shot. Mr. Back, of 
Holt, had one picked up dead in a chalk-pit, there, on the 4th. 
]\fr. Fountaiiie, of Easton, near Norwich, had also one brought to 
him alive, near the end of the month. 
Little Crake. Mr. B. C. Silcock informs me that, in the 
second week of this month, ho received a bird of this species 
which had been shot in the marshes adjoining Hickling Broad. 
Common Snipe (large variety). About the middle of this 
month, a fine example of the so-called Paisset Snipe, the Scolopax 
rustiata, of Gouhl, was shot at East Euston, and was sent to 
Mr. Eoberts of Norwich for preservation. This specimen, from 
the bright, ruddy tint of the plumage was, I should say, a bird of 
the yea°r, with the beak measuring 2| in., a marked feature in this 
largo variety of the Common Snipe, for I cannot credit it with 
specific rank. 
