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OKNITHOLOaiCAL NOTES FEOM NORTH NORFOLK 
OURING THE AVINTER OF 1882—83 
(SErTEMlJEU 30tii to Maroii 1st inclusive). 
V>Y J. H. Gurney, Jun., F.Z.8. 
Read 2 ’jth February, 1883 . 
1 HE past winter * has been on the whole singularly improlific, as 
far as Norfolk is concerned. The storm of Jays, alluded to by 
Air. J. Cordeanx in tlie ‘Zoologist,’-]- though specially looked out for, 
did not appear on our coast, X and though avc had the usual 
niigratory arrivals from the far north, there were no such rushes at 
Cromer lighthouse as sometimes occur. All kinds of game have 
done well, except A\ oodcock.s. Of Pheasants (tame-bred) there has 
been an abundant suppl)-, and Partridges were really quite as 
numerous as in 1881. Two such good 3 ’ears are some recompense 
for the exceptionally bad seasons which preceded them. The open 
weather at Christmas gave a fine time of it to the flocks of Fieldfares 
on our Hawthorn hodges^ and to the Blackbirds, which had no 
* The following notes, referring chiefly to birds which have occurred in the 
neighbourhood of Cromer, must only be considered as supplementary to 
Mr. Stevenson’s annual summary for the whole of the county. 
t ‘ Zoologist,’ 1SS3, pp. 1, 76, 77. 
: This is the more remarkable, as it was noticed in Lincolnshire, 
Nortliamptonshire, Hertfordshire, and Hampshire. AYriting to me from 
Hertfordshire, Mr. J. E. Littleboy says, that Jays have been more abundant 
than for many years past, and that he had heard of them in aU directions. 
They have long been known as migrants to Norfolk, and a remarkable 
instance is recorded at Tunstal in Suffolk. In October, 1871, 1 recorded a 
great many seen at Cromer. A great many were also once seen at Easton 
which is eighteen and a half miles from the coa.st. ’ 
