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of Cromer, Mr. J. II. Gurney, Jun., noticed a very large arrival on 
the 13th, and they were numerous in the garden of Colney House, 
Cromer, on the 18th and 19th ; and just at this date, twelve were 
picked up dead against the Hunstanton Lighthouse. 
Amongst the Starlings, Skylarks, and other migrants killed 
at the Cromer light, this month, was a si)ecimen of the Knot 
Sandpiper, a very exceptional circumstance. 
Another special feature of this month was the great influx of 
Shore-larks on the beach and denes at Yarmouth. They were first 
seen, Mr. G. Smith informed me, on the 15th, and from that date 
to the 29th, about fifty were shot, of which thirty passed through 
ids hands j and of these he believed only six were females. Two 
were shot at Cley, out of a considerable flock, on the 30th. Twenty 
years ago I gave a long price for a Yarmouth specimen, as one of 
our Norfolk rarities. 
The wild-fowl killed on Breydon this month consisted only of a 
few Pintail Ducks, Wigeon, Mallard, and Teal, a few Grey Geese, 
of which species not known, a large flock was observed, flying, 
at Northrepps on the 25th, and a lot of seven Sheldrakes on the 
23rd. The fearful gale, however, from the east on the 27th, drove 
hundreds of Gulls, large and small, in shore, which sought Breydon 
■waters for shelter. 
November, mild, wot, and stormy, and with hut slight frosts, 
a (forded little sport to the gunners. The only winter fowl at 
Yarmouth were represented by a few immature Scaups, Golden- 
eyes, Red-breasted Mergansers, and Goosanders, on Breydon, and 
considerable flocks of Scoters out at sea. Several young birds of 
the Sclavonian Grebe Avere also met Avith, and about sixteen 
Whooper SAvans appeared, hut passed on in safety. 
The paucity of Tringac, both on the beach and Breydon muds, 
this month, AA'^as remarkable ; hut Snipe Avere at times very plentiful 
in the marshes, Avith hundreds of LapAvings. 
A few Shore-larks still frequented the Denes, and five more Avere 
shot in the first Aveek, and tAvo on the 25th, and one caught alive, 
Avhich came to my aviary. A pair Avere seen at Hunstanton on the 
2nd (when Skylarks and Hooded CroAvs Avere ar’riving off the sea 
all day), and three Avere shot at Blakeney the same Aveek. Largo 
flocks of Wood Pigeons Avere observed coming inland at Northrepps 
