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on tlio 5 til, ami Lapwings, in successive Hocks, high up, on 
the 23rd. 
Of other occurrences may he noted a fully adult male Shoveller, 
in brilliant plumage, shot near Yarmouth on the 3rd. A Norfolk 
Plover, from Swaff ham, as late as the 8th of this month, which was 
very fat, and weighed 1 lb. G oz. A Pork-tailed Petrel was said to 
have been for sale in Yarmouth market. A Crossbill, shot from a 
Hock at Caister, near Norwich, and a beautiful adult male Jlerlin 
at Caistor, by Yarmouth. Two or three great Spotted AVood- 
peckers, seen this month in unusual localities near the sea, had, no 
doubt, arrived on this coast. The last House Martins seen this 
year, were two young birds of a very late hatch. Hying feebly about 
Pracondalo Hill on the 8th of November. 
Several rime frosts and one severe night when eight degrees of 
frost was registered, in December, did not avail to bring wild-fowl, 
or other winter visitants to our shores in any numbers • and the list 
of occurrences on any part of the coast is but a meagre one. 
AVhen going up to London by rail on the 4th, I saw a prodigious 
quantity of Lapwings rise from the meadows near the Lakenham 
Viaduct. I should say between three and four hundred. I never 
before saw so many in one Hock ; and with the sun on them, as they 
rose and spread out, it was a beautiful, as well as a remarkable 
sight. 
The scarcity of AVaders on P.reydon was the same this month as 
last; and a few Knots and a Bar-tailed Godwit, shot on the lOtli, 
was an event amongst the gunners. Golden and Green Plovers 
were plentiful, and a good many AVidgeon appeared on the 3rd, 
and a AVhooper Swan was shot on the 11th. About the IGth, 
seven Goosanders were sent into Yarmouth, one an adult male, shot 
in the neighbourliood ; and three other young birds had been 
killed on Breydon with one or two immature Eed-breasted 
Alergansers. Immature Golden-eyes were the only “ hard-weather ” 
fowd, and one or two Grey “ Lag ” Geese were shot on the coast — 
eight seen in one Hock ; — and three Bean Geese in the marshes near 
A'armouth. Tavo more Sclavonian and one Eed-necked Grebe 
Avere also obtained on Breydon. On the 8th another Little Gull 
Avas shot on the beach, and an immature Hen Harrier, male, 
on the loth. Two Bitterns, from Hickling, Avere for sale in 
