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preserver, of that town February 11th, two shot in Lynn 
Harbour; 12th, one on the Estuary Bank ; 14th, two ditto ; and 
one in Lynn Harbour; 15th, one on the Estuary Bank. All 
these were in full adult plumage, five males and two females. 
About the same date Mr. Baker, a bird preserver at Cambridge, 
received three adult specimens from Hunstanton, where a gunner 
is said to have shot thirteen in one day, but considering them too 
small to make plumes for ladies’ hats ! threw them all away. Mr. 
hlicklefield, ol St. John’s College, Cambridge, also killed three at 
Hunstanton the same week, a male and female adult and an 
immature male, and some eighteen or twenty were seen. Mr. 
Baker, although too late to procure any himself, believes that he 
saw two or three Hying inland when travelling by rail to Hunstan- 
ton on the 19th. 
On the 12th I received an adult male and a male in immature 
pliimage, from Salthouse, both shot on the previous day, and 
another adult male was killed at the same place on the 10th. On 
the 12th, also, ^Ir. J. J. Winter, of Horwich, shot an adult male 
on Cromer Beach, the wind, as he tells me, blowing a heavy gale 
at the time, and many large gulls were driven in by the storm, but 
no more little gulls appeared amongst them. On the 14th, Mr. 
H. Upcher received an adult male from Cley, and on the 15th, an 
immature female from Salthouse ; and the same day an adult female 
from Sherringham Beach. A pair now in my collection, male and 
female, adult, were also killed at Hasborough on the 15th. 
At Yarmouth the large number procured were nearly all killed 
between the 12th and 14th, but the market being somewhat 
glutted, they were still offered for sale up to the 19th and 20th. 
As far as I could ascertain at the time, at least twenty specimens 
were shot on the beach during the height of the gale, of which 
six couples, all adult birds came under my notice, and some were, 
I believe, sent up to LeadenhaU ilarket, where, from first to last, 
about thirty specimens wew received, chiefly from the Eastern 
Counties. A pair of adult birds, kiUed at Hickling, near Yar- 
mouth, on the 1 1 th, were the only examples, to my knowledge, 
which in that locality were not shot on the beach. Amongst the 
birds sent to our Norwich bird stufters, three were from different 
localities in Suffolk — Wendling, Beccles, and Lowestoft — but all 
these were amongst the latest birds kUled ; indeed, the last that I 
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