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at Yarmouth about the same time, and a fine old male Golden-eye 
at Hickling on the 27th. Strange to say, when the weather was 
most severe, towards the end of the month I saw a male Shoveller, 
anything but a “hard-weather” fowl, in the iforwich fishmarket. 
In February more old Scaups Avere met with on Breydon, and a 
female Velvet Scoter was also shot at Yarmouth on the 3rd. 
Pintails, Common Scoters, and other foAvl ajjpeared about the 
10th and 11th, and by the 27th Duck and Mallard, Wigeon and 
Pochard were plentiful, and three mature Golden-eyes were shot 
at Somerton on the 26th. A few immature Merganzers and one 
or tAVO Black-throated Divers were killed during the frost, but I 
saw none in good plumage. 
At EauAvorth on the 18th of March, Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun., 
found a strange mixture of winter and summer foAvl on the Broad, 
a pair of Golden-eyes and fifteen Tufted Ducks appearing with 
a male Shoveller and a Garganey, ten Common Teal, tAventy Duck 
and Mallard, and a flock of Wigeon ; the latter all male birds 
but tAVO. 
Shovellers Avere seen on Breydon, again, as early as the 1st of 
August, and several lots of this species appeared there on the 
20th, Avith a few Sheldrakes. I have several notes of GadAvalls 
killed both on the coast and inland, in September and October, 
but as these birds breed in such large numbers'^' upon the meres 
of the Merton and Wretham estates, and in many localities in 
West Horfolk along the valley of the Har, and disperse in autumn, 
it is impossible noAV to distinguish foreign arrivals. 
An immature Long-tailed Duck, a female, Avas shot near Yarmouth 
on the 22nd of October, an early date for this species ; and a fcAV 
immature Eed-throated Divers Avere shot both in October and 
November. In December a female Golden-eye on Breydon, AAuth a 
feAV Pintail Ducks and flocks of Scoters at sea complete my notes. 
* Sir R. P. Qallwey, in a most interesting paper in the ‘ Field ’ o 
May 12th, 18S3, on “Pish and Fowl in AVest Norfolk,” as observed on Lord 
Walsingham’s estate at Merton, speaks of tlie number of Gadwalls on one 
private Avater alone being computed at fourteen or fifteen hundred. 
