I have made out the following list, which may give some little idea 
of the extent of the immigration ; hut I have had some difficulty in 
avoiding repetition in numbers, as birds recorded from the coast 
appeared again, in many instances, in our birdstuffers’ shops. 
Honey Buzzards . . . . .21 
Common Buzzards . . . . .10 
Seen, not identified . . • • -4 
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Or these birds, reckoning both species, thirteen occurred at 
Yarmouth, or on the Broads adjoining, and at Britton and Somer- 
leyton, on the borders of Suffolk ; eleven in the neighbourhood 
of Cromer and Northrepps ; three inland, and one at Hunstanton, 
near Lynn ; the only record I find from that part of the coast. 
Of five, localities not known. 
We have had no sueh visitation of Honey Buzzards since 
September, 1841, and the numbers then seen or procured fell far 
short of the present record. 
With the exception of a Buzzard, seen inland, on the 21st, at 
Cranmer, near Fakenham, the first indication of this raptoiial 
invasion was the appearance, on the morning of the 24th, of three 
Common Buzzards, three Sparrow Hawks, and a Harrier, washed 
up dead on the beach at Yarmouth, as stated by Mr. Patterson 
in a letter to the ‘Daily Press,’ drowned, evidently, by some 
mischance on their way to our shores. On the 23rd a Honey 
Buzzard had been taken alive on the Drive at Yarmouth, and a 
Common Buzzard shot on the Horth Denes, but ten, at least, of 
the specimens included in my list were seen or obtained on the 
24th, the rest between that date and the 31st. Two Honey 
Buzzards were also sent to Norwich on October 1st and Gth, 
localities not known. I could not ascertain that a single adult 
bird had appeared amongst the Honey Buzzards. Two young 
birds, which Mr. Gurney secured alive, were prettily mottled in 
the immature dress, but died in the spring of the following year. 
One large Hawk, supposed to be a Buzzard, which was seen soaring 
at a great height at Northropps on the 27th, was being mobbed 
by two flocks of small birds, estimated at about two hundred. 
A Honey Buzzard, which was trapped at a "Wasps’ nest at 
Southrcpps, had dug out a hole big enough to get iuto, and 
