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MR. T. SOUTHWELL ON HARE BIRDS IN NORFOLK. 
IX. 
NOTES OX SOME RARE BIRDS OBTAINED IN 
NORFOLK IN THE YEAR 1890— 91. 
Bv Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., Vice-President. 
Read 2.ph February, 1891. 
My purpose in what follows is not so much to dwell on the 
remarkable spell of severe weather, which, commencing with a 
heavy snowstorm from the north-east on the 25th November, 
1890, continued, with one very brief intermission, till the 22nd 
January, 1891, and of which Mr. Preston has given us so 
complete a history ; or, of the effects produced by such a long 
continuance of extreme cold upon the birds of this district, 
although they were sufficiently remarkable to be worthy of being 
recorded in our ‘Transactions,’ but rather to put on record some of 
the rare species, of which quite an exceptional number have come 
under my notice since the close of the Society’s last year, in 
March, 1890. I may, however, say in passing, that the long 
continued cold had a most disastrous effect upon such species 
of land birds as were overtaken by it. Just previous to the 
25th November, very extensive movements of small birds were 
observed, which soon, however, passed on ; large flocks of Snow 
Buntings and Shore Larks passed along the coast; the Fieldfares very 
quickly left us, followed by the Redwings, which rapidly exhausted 
the hedge-row berries ; and soon the Thrushes followed, leaving 
piles of broken snail-shells at their feeding-stones, and few have 
hitherto returned ; the Mistletoe Thrushes suffered very severely, 
and many of them perished ; and the same may be said of those 
useful birds the Barn Owl. The Rooks were very hard pressed, 
