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A Hobby was seen on the 1st at Northrepps. By the 12tli 
and 15th I find the usual notes of migratory Waders appearing 
on Breydon, and along the coast at Cley and Blakeney. Common 
Curlew and Green Sandpipers were very plentiful at the former 
place, where two iinraaturc Spotted Redshanks were shot on the 
loth and 2Gth, and a few Pigmy Curlew and Knots. Four 
Cormorants ajipcared on Breydon on the 29tli, and one Kentish 
Plover was obtained on the 21st; and a Black-tailed Godwit 
at Cley. 
Of summer Warbler-s, prior to their southward movements, I 
may note that, in my own garden, though so near the city, I saw 
a ^Vryneck on the 3rd. Spotted Flycatchers were still there on 
the 16th, and, (piite as late as that date, young Whitethroats, 
Chiffchalfs, Willow Wrens, and Re Istarts frequented my Silver 
Birch trees, as usual in autumn. One morning I saw and heard 
a Robin and a Willow Wren, both birds of the year, practising 
their notes against ne.vt spring. I have no record of Swifts seen 
after the 15th, and I find, after an entry in my journal of House 
^Martins seen feeding young in the nest on the 31st, I describe the 
summer of 1882 as the worst I had ever known for that speci&s. 
A Nuthatch visited my garden on the 7th, and was very busy 
about the trunk and branches of a Clicrry-treo. This species 
nests, regularly, in some spot on the Unthank’s Road, between my 
house and Mount Pleasant Lane, as I frequently hear its peculiar 
cry during the summer months. 
T may here mention that Mr. H. !M. Upcher of Feltwell informed 
mo that ho had reason to believe that the Short-eared Owl nested, 
once again, this summer iu the fens of that neighbourhood. A 
single bird of this species was seen at Northrepps on the 30th, 
coming in from the sea 
!My own records of the weather in September and October tally, 
only too closely, with those of Mr. Preston. Tlie former was, 
on the whole, wet and squally ; the latter, as he describes it, was 
“the wettest October for seventeen years past; in fact, with but 
two or three exceptions, the wettest October ever known.” We 
had, also, that month, on the 27th, a most destructive gale from 
the east, with a deluge of rain. 
A Red-necked Plialarope was sent me in the flesh from Yarmouth 
