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subsequent search in the library of the Zoological Society in 
London, coupled A\dth an inspection of the series of Egrets in 
]\Ir. Osbert Salvin’s collection, showed that in the Sparham bird we 
had an adult sj'jecinien of the American Ardea candidissima. 
Whether it was really hilled in E'orfolk I must leave. It has all 
the apjDoarance of not having been set up at the time of being 
shinned, the supjile nech, and other signs, which a bird mounted 
from the flesli generally liavc, being all wanting. Dr. Diamond, 
however, informs me that it was decaying Avhen it reached him. 
It was stuffed by a birdstuffer named Hobcroft, or Hadcroft, of 
L^ew Compton Street, Soho, who went to A^nerica and died there. 
It is insciibed on the bach of the case; — *'Shot by Eoger Stoughton 
near Sparham, LTorfolh, 1831.”— J. II. Gurney, Jun. 
hloTES ON THE Weather OF 1882-83.— The Eev. H. P. 
IMarsham has been good enough to furnish mo with the following 
notes on the weather of 1882 and the early part of 1883° 
■\\ hich, as the seasons have been very exceptional, niay bo worth 
recording. Tlio observations have all been made at Pippon Hall, 
near hlorwich. 
1882. — Barometer at 9 a.m.— Highest on January 17th, 30T in. ; 
lowest March 1st, 28- G in. Total rainfall of the year, which fell on 
1.54 days, 28-29. In the month of November rain fell on 22 days, 
hlost rain fell in October; viz., 5 -43 in. The greatest rainfall 
tooh place on the 22nd October; viz., D45 in. in 24 hours, which 
is the heaviest fall Mr. Marsham has over registered in so short a 
period. The total rainfall for the year is about 14 in. in excess of 
the average of the past 11 years. During the year the wind 
(at 9 a.m.) has been in the S., S.W., or W. on 184 days; H.W. or 
N. for 86 days; S., S.E., or H.E. for 95 days. In the year 1782 
the wind was in the like quarters for 143, 109, and 112 days 
resiaectivcly. 
The rainfall for the exceptionally wet month of October, 1882, 
as given in j\Ir. Du Port’s return, was least in Horfolh at 
Helvergate, viz., 4-38 in., and greatest at Thorpe (Norwich), 
viz., 7-02 in. 
1883. Mr. Marsham also sends the following comparison of the 
weather in the month of Marcli in the Uvo years 1845 and 1883, by 
