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June and July, 
Magpie. About the lOtli of June four young Magpies were 
seen in one of the coverts at Northrepps. 
Mute Swan. A pair of tame Swans at Keswick, near Norwich, 
this year brought off (May 27 th) the prolific number of twelve 
Cygnets, of which one was afterwards found dead. A few years 
back I knew of a pair on Surlingham Broad which, for several 
years in succession, reared ten and eleven Cygnets, and once or 
twice the hen-bird laid twelve esgs. 
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Spoonbill. A single bird on Breydon, June 23rd, escaped. 
Herons nesting, I was informed this year of a small heronry 
commenced in a plantation at Struinjishaw, near Brundall, on 
the Yare. 
Hooded Crow. About the 21st of July a Hooded Crow was 
seen near the cliff at Overstrand. The departure of the main body 
of these birds was witnessed at Northrejips on several occasions 
in the spring. On the 9th of March many were seen, with some 
Books, flying seawards, and very high in the air • and again, on the 
IGth and 17th, flocks of Grey Crows, Books, and Jackdaws were 
observed departing in the same manner; though a few of the 
former still remained, near the coast, up to the 3rd of April. 
August. 
Norfglk Plover attacked by a Hen. On the 2nd of this 
month, Mr, Callow of Northrepps heard a screaming noise in his 
stack yard, which he found to proceed from a bird of this species 
which a hen, in fear for her chickens, was severely buffeting. 
The bird, scared and exhausted, allowed Mr. Callow to capture it ; 
and with one wing clipped, it was turned into a walled-in garden, 
where it remained till its death on the 31st of December. This 
species bred regularly a few years back on a lofty range of furze- 
covered hills at the back of Cromer and Bunton, and this 
apparently adult bird may have wandered from that old haunt. 
This incident was recorded in the ‘Zoologist’ for 1881 (p. 384) 
by Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun. 
Sandwicu Tern. A female adult shot on Breydon August 24th. 
