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July, Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun., purchased in the Norwich fishmarket 
a female Golden-eye, an unusually early date for this marine 
species. It had been brought in that morning by a countryman, 
hut the fishmonger did not knoAV Avhere from ; it Avas supposed 
from certain portions of the plumage to be a late bird of last year, 
and, possibly, a Avounded bird unable to migrate. It Avas moulting 
but in good condition. A good many Scaups and Wigcon Avere at 
Yarmouth about the middle of September, and I saw a young male 
Garganey on the 29th. In the second Aveelc of November, a pair of 
Velvet Scoters Avere shot at Welney Wash, and an adult female 
Golden-eye, on Breydon, December 19th. 
Of Divers I saAV but tAvo or three specimens, this year, of the 
Eed-and-Black-throated species, all immature j but I Avould draw 
special attention to the record by IMr. F. D. Power, in his notes from 
Cley, in our ‘Transactions’ for this year, of an extraordinary 
migration of Eed-throated Divers, Avitnessed by himself and his 
brother, on the 1st of October; the only bird secured having a 
perfect red throat. 
Eaptorial IMigeants. An Eagle Avas seen at Billingford about 
the 2Gth of January and, on the 28th, a young female Eough-legged 
Buzzard Avas shot at Stiff key. A Peregrine Avas seen at Northrepps 
early in February and, on the 14th, five large birds, supposed to bo 
Buzzards, Avere observed at Thorpe, in the same neighbourhood. 
A Eough-legged Buzzard Avas also trapped at BaAvburgh on the 12th. 
A Hobby Avas seen at Northrepps on the 1 1 th of May and an Osprey 
Avas shot at Yarmouth on the 29th, probably the same seen on 
several occasions at Burgh. Early in August several largo 
Eaptores, supposed to be Buzzards, Avere seen about Northrepps 
and Sherringham, and a young male Marsh Harrier Avas shot in 
that neighbourhood about the same time. On the 14th of Septem- 
ber a Marsh Harrier Avas sent to Norwich from the neighbourhood 
of Cromer ; a iMerlin Avas seen at Blakeney on the 17th ; and on 
the 21st, Mr. F. D. PoAver shot a female Peregrine, on the beach, at 
AYells, and saw another on the 1st of October. 
On the 8th of October I purchased a finely marked, but immature, 
Eough-legged Buzzard, Avhich had just been .shot at Mouschold, 
near the City, and 1 heard of another killed in the same locality 
somoAvhat later. At the latter part of the month, also, this species 
