netted, and I received three pairs for my aviary. Bramblings Avere 
plentiful in the same neighbourhood on the 13th. On the 5th 
an immature Little Gull was shot on Breydon. A Hoopoe Avas 
killed at Horsey on the 9th. On the morning of the 12th a 
Woodcock Avas shot on Yarmouth Denes, from a fresh flight, and 
about a dozen in that neighbourhood by the 15th. Short-eared 
Owls also appeared there about the same date. On the 12th, at 
Blakeney, Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun., found numbers of Song Thrushes 
on the sand-hills, apparently j ust arrived. Grey Crows, first seen 
at Horthrepps on the 9th, arrived in large numbers at Yarmouth 
on the 22nd, and some Fieldfares. On the 20th, also, at Xorthrepps 
a considerable flight of Jackdaws Avas seen passing inland. There 
seems to have been an arrival also of ^fagpics about Weybournc 
and Shcringham on the lOlh ; and, on the 17th at Xorthrepps, 
an apparent immigration of Robins, as obsor\’ed by Mr. J. H. 
Gurney, Jun. A good many Ring Ouzels appeared at Yarmouth 
aud its vicinity between the Gth and loth of the mouth (and several 
at Weybournc in September). !Mr. Smith told mo he had seven 
or eight specimens brought to him. And, of other birds in that 
locality, seen or shot, I may mention a I’cregrine at Caistor on 
the 1-lth, an immature Richardson’s Skua on Breydon, SiUne date, 
a Great Snipe at Brad well on the 18 th, and one at Lopliam on 
the 28th, Aveighing 81 ounces ; also a Great Grey Shrike on the 
North Denes on the 2Gth ; and a young male ^Merlin at Barton 
on the 23rd. 
Of late summer birds, in such a season, ma}' be noted a Swtillow 
at Stoke, near Norwich, and a Nightjar at Northrepps on the 14th. 
A good many Spotted Rails Averc met Avith in the Yarmouth 
ueiMibourhood this month. The chief ornithological event, 
however, of the month Avas the arrival, in unusual numbers all 
along the coast, of the tiny Golden-crested Wren, their flights 
occurring at intervals of some days, commencing in the previous 
month, and noticeable up to about the 20th of October. 
A single bird, AA'hich tlcAV’, exhau.sted, into a room in Dr. Beverley’s 
cottage at Overstrand, close to the sea, on the morning of the 5th, 
marks the date, no doubt, of one flight ; and on the 8th they Averc 
abundant in a plantation on the Caister road, near Yarmouth, and 
:Mr. Smith described them in the same locality, and in like shelter, 
at Gorleston, as “ A^ery thick,” on the 15th. In the neighbourhood 
