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caught them. They proved to be starlings ; and from that time 
a continual stream of these birds and larks (the latter prepon- 
derating) kept coming until five a.m., clustering wherever the 
light was strongest, and allowing themselves to be caught by 
handfuls. There was little wind, but what little there was was 
from the north, from which direction they seemed to come. 
Before the dawn broke he had caught a hundred, and when he 
went doAvn he found six (four starlings and two larks) on the 
ground outside the lighthouse. No other birds were observed 
with the exception of an owl, but there were great numbers 
of moths. He heard a starling shriek, and presently the oavI 
came flying round and bore off one close to his head. I saAv some 
of the moths Avhich resembled Gamma moths, but were smaller 
and darker. J. H. Gurnet), jim. 
On the occurrence op white-winged Black Terns {Sterna 
leiicoptera) in Norfolk. — On the 2Gth of May, 1871, a flock of five 
Avhite-Avinged black terns Avere observed settling on the “muds” 
of Breydon, near Yarmouth, of Avhich four Avere killed at one 
shot. The odd bird did not come within range, and was not seen 
again, but two had been remarked on the same Avater a day or so 
before. Of the four specimens thus procured tAvo proved to be 
males and tAvo females, in full summer plumage. So rarely has 
this tern occurred in this country that Yarrell records but one 
example, an adult male, shot amongst some common black terns, 
on the Shannon, in 1841 ; it has, however, in tAvo other instances, 
since that date, been killed in this county, one on Horsey Mere, 
May 17th, 1853, and one on Hickling Broad, June 27th, 18G7, 
both adult birds. H. Stevenson. 
French Partridge laa'ing in a Teal’s nest. — T he folloAving 
curious circumstance Avas remarked in the summer of 1871, by a 
gentleman, Avho, as a sportsman, is Avell acquainted Avith both 
species. Having flushed a teal from her nest among the marram- 
grass on the the sand hills at Dunwich, Suffolk, he found, to his 
surprise, that it contained not only four or five teal’s eggs, but as 
many of the french j)artridgc. II. Stevenson. 
