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president’s address. 
the Norwich Museum, and a new addition to the avi-fauna of 
Norfolk. 
In October the Eev. E. W. Dowell exhibited a variety of the 
Brent Goose, known to shore-gunners as the “ Stranger Brent,” 
and which he considers a distinct species. At the same meeting 
Mr. Theobald Cozens-IIardy sent some notes on a Bobin and Pied 
Wagtail, the former of which took possession of the Wagtail’s nest 
and hatched some of its eggs as well as her own. 
Mr. W. W. Spelman, in the month of January, exhibited five 
somewhat rare birds recently shot in the Eastern Counties. 
Mr. Patterson’s paper on Gulls and Terns, read in the month of 
November, was the first of a series of very interesting and graphic 
descriptions of bird and fish life in Great Yarmouth. The clever, 
and often amusing, pen-and-ink sketches, with which they were 
embellished rendered them all the more acceptable, and it is much 
to be desired, in the interests of the Society, that Mr. Patterson’s 
indefatigable zeal as a naturalist may produce the same good fruits 
in the future as it has in the past. 
Lastly, in the month of February Mr. Ogilvie contributed a paper 
on the Diurnal Habits of the Manx Shearwater, as seen by him in 
the neighbourhood of St. David’s. 
Pishes rank next to birds in popularity among our working 
members, which is only natural considering the locality in which 
we live. 
Mr. Southwell’s paper on the Herring Fishery is an annual event 
to which we all look forward, and as it will doubtless be printed in 
extenso, I need make but few remarks upon it. The burden of 
Mr. Southwell’s song is that there has been an extraordinary glut 
of fish this year, with a consequent ruinous depreciation in the 
value of the commodity. It would be only logical to assume the 
public at large gained some advantage from this remarkable plethora 
of Herrings ; but judging from the discussion that ensued, this does 
not appear to have been the case. In the month of May Mr. 
Southwell reported the occurrence of two fishes, new to the county, 
both of which had been found by Mr. Arthur Patterson, of 
Yarmouth, in the refuse left by the draw-netters on the beach, viz., 
