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as wildfowl of various kinds swept down the coast on tlieir 
passage southward. A Purple Sandpiper was shot at Yarmouth 
on the 19th, and a Green Sandpiper was seen about the same date 
at Taverham near !Yorwich. So soon as the frost began to break 
by the first Aveek in February, our markets Avere full of Dunlins, 
Knots, Eedshanks, an Oyster-catcher or tAvo, and various Avild- 
foAvl, all in Avretched plight, and lots of Water Hens in a shocking 
state of emaciation, as one dealer remarked, “ not Avorth picking up.” 
The Coots seeking the salt marshes suffered far less. Although in 
the hard Aveather scarcely as many Dunlins Avere shot on Breydon 
as have been killed occasionally at one discharge of a duck-gun, 
yet by the middle of February they appeared in large numbers, 
about two hundred in a flock, Avith some Einged Plovers. Two 
Golden Plovers Avith partial black breasts, and a good flock of 
Eedshanks Avere seen at EaiiAVorth on the 18th of March. On the 
morning of the 2nd of April a flock of some two hundred Golden 
Plovers Avas seen at Castleacre, Avhere large numbers had recently 
frequented the Avheatfields, most of them assuming the black 
breast. 
Amongst the spring migrants on Breydon during the first fort- 
night in May Avere tAVO Turnstones, one Black-tailed GodAvit, and 
several lots of Bar-tailed GodAvits, and on the 14th a feAV Grey 
Plover, assuming summer plumage, one Greenshank, and a fcAV Eed 
Knots. From the 20th to the end of the month the tide of 
migration set in, and Breydon had its full compliment of Grey and 
Golden Plovers, Turnstones, Sanderlings, Pigmy CuiIcaa's, Oyster- 
catchers, tAA'O or three Kentish, and many Einged Plovers, one 
Greenshank, Dunlins, &c. Dunlins Avere still numerous on the 1st 
of June, a Greenshank Avas shot on the 11th, and large flocks of 
Eedshanks appeared at the same time, and three Dotterel iinorimllas) 
Avere seen on the North Beach on the 16th. Though not included 
amongst Waders, I may also mention here, several Black Terns in 
May. Turnstones and Dunlins still frequented the “ muds ” rqA to 
the 23rd of June. 
The end of the “close time,” August 1st, found Breydon again 
alive AAuth Dunlins, Pigmy CurlcAvs, Eing Plovers, Whimbrcl, 
CurlcAA^s, Eedshanks, and Common Sandpipers (eighteen Avere 
killed at one shot), of all of Avhich species specimens Avere killed in 
the first Aveek of the month. One Turnstone on the 20th, first 
