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Yarmouth market ; and a Peregrine Falcon was shot on Breydon 
on the 13 th. 
Early in the month, three Great Grey Shrikes were killed in the 
county, at Loddon, Aylsham, and Fakenhain. 
Waxwings were seen, and two or three shot at Palling, Shering- 
ham, and Hunstanton j at Yarmouth, one was killed in the 
Apollo Gardens” on the 14th, and two were reported from 
Gorleston on the 17th. Woodcocks were numerous about the 
15th, when thirty were shot in the coverts at Hempstead. 
In bringing my notes for this year to a close, it is something to 
be thankful for, that, in its last month, Norfolk escaped the severe 
snowstorms that blocked locomotion, by road and rail, in some 
parts of bcotland, and in the North of England j as well as the 
terrible fogs which, from personal experience, I can say, rendered 
life in London almost unbearable for a time. Still, a modified 
form of similar wretchedness was ours in a prevalence of, rain, 
sleet, fog, and cold winds, with a combination of such atmospheric 
pleasantries on Christmas-day. Slightly varying then the forjn 
of a familiar epitaph I would say, of 1882 : “ Take it for all in all, 
may we never look upon its like again ! ” 
