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me that, during the extreme cold which prevailed for a week or 
two prior to tlie 10th of June, many of these birds were found 
dead uj^on his farm, but not in the same numbers as on the former 
occasion, as but few had returned to their old haunts since that 
tlate, Ilis men, when going to work early in the morning, have 
seen them clustered together on the sheltered sides of the fences, 
too exhausted to move far when disturbed, but these, if the sun 
shone out later in the day, would revive with the warmth and fly 
feebly over the pastures after the little insect-life then stirring. 
No doubt the same thing has been observed elsewhere, more or 
less, according to the open or enclosed nature of the locality; for, 
even as late as the 22nd of June, when driving from Norwich to 
Surlingham, (a cold north wind blowmg at the time), I saw two 
swallows on the road, scarcely able to flutter above the ground. 
Hiat the same cause and eflect have been experienced on the Conti- 
nent is shown by the followmg extract from a letter of the Paris 
Correspondent of the Daily News, for Juno 12th, wherein the 
writer, diverted for once from war topics and Communism, remarks : 
“ For several days past large numbers of dead martins (a species 
of swallow) have been found in the public streets.” II. Stevenson. 
Snowy Owl at Soutiiuepps.— On the 4th of December a 
noble snowy owl was shot in a turnip field at Southrepps, near 
Cromer, by a fiirmer named Painter, who has presented it to 
Sir T. F. Buxton. 
I found it to be a female, and from the numerous broad bands 
of deep black on a white ground, I judged it to be immature. 
These bauds have since rather faded. Tliis rare species ha.s 
occurred on several occasions in this county, though not within 
the last twenty years ; it is Avorthy of remark, however, that out 
of seven examples previously recorded, four were obtained in 
close vicinity to the sea, and within a few miles of the spot 
Avhere this last one was killed. J. H. Gurney, jun. 
Birds attracted to Cromer Lighthouse. — About the 20th or 
27th of October, between one and two a.m., as one of the Cromer 
lighthouse keepers sat in his lantern, lie heard two birds strike 
the glass, and going out ho found them fluttering there and 
