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killed, as usual, in our enclosed districts, where, for botli residents 
and migrants of this species, old yew trees and gardens stocked with 
hullace trees have most attractions ; a few have been procured 
on the coast at Yarmouth, as in 1859, when a large flight alighted 
in the gardens facing the Denes. On this occasion a considerable 
]jroportion of the specimens brought to our bird-stuffers, have been 
killed in and around Diss, and chiefly in one particular garden in 
the town itself. The number destroyed in that locality alone is 
variously estimated at between fifty and sixty, of which about thirty 
were shot at Diss. Of other examples brought into Norwich to be 
preserved, I have seen ten from E;vst Carlton, one Buxton, two 
Bergh A[)ton, two Kirby, two Arminghall, four Lyng, three Brooke, 
two Ilethersett, and one Catton, twenty-seven in all ; and these 
probably represent but a portion of the birds sacrificed when 
attacking the bullaces in market gardens. !Mr. Thos. Southwell 
informs me that in all the Diss specimens, the contents of whose 
stomachs ivere reserved for him to see, “ the food consisted entirely 
of yew berries ; but those from E:ist Carlton and other villages 
near Norwich, had, in every instance, been feeding on the kernels 
of a small stone fruit, probably the hullace, as they were seen 
to frequent those trees. In dissecting them a very powerful smell 
of prussic acid was evolved from the partially decomposed keniels.” 
The Eev. H. T. Frere, of Burston, received a nestling hawfinch in 
the spring of 1872 bred in that neighbourhood, and every year 
adds more instances of this species remaining to breed both in this 
and the adjoining county. 
Waxwixg {Bomhy cilia garrula.) — Tliat the appearance of 
waxwings on our Eastern coasts during the winter months is not 
due, as a rule, to the severity of the season, is shown by the 
appearance of many examples in the present winter of 1872-3. 
Between the 15th of November and the 8th of February, I have 
notes of some sixteen examples killed in different parts of the 
county, in date about equally distributed over the period before 
and after Christmas. Tiie majority of those I have examined 
have been in remarkably fine plumage, some haidng four, six, and 
seven wax tips on each wing, but none eight, as I have seen on 
previous occasions ; when the number of tips is uneven I have 
froijucntly found the deficient (juill .showing traces of friction or 
