64 mr. a. Patterson’s natural history notes from Yarmouth. 
April 28th. During the demolition of an old chimney in Howard 
Street fifteen skeletons of Jackdaws were shown to me, lodged in 
a recess, wherein, as nestlings, they no doubt had fallen and died— 
it may be from suffocation. At the present time Jackdaws nest 
nowhere in the town, although I think their cousins, the Starlings, 
do so increasingly. 
A Gull, which I supposed at the time to be an Iceland Gull, was 
flying, in company with other species, quite near me on Breydon. 
It remained some days, and then disappeared : this was the first 
week in May. I heard afterwards that it was shot, and is stated 
to be an Albino example of Larus canus [vide ‘Zoologist,’ 1900, 
p. 104], 
May 10th. A few God wits on Breydon. 
On the same date six Spoonbills, which had frequented Breydon 
since the 8th, allowed me to row within thirty yards of them before 
they flew to another “lump.” There was a marked correspondence 
in their actions, each raising one leg, and craning the neck simul- 
taneously, with military precision, before taking to flight, which 
was performed in silence, and in a straight line, one following the 
other. Of all the Spoonbills I have been fortunate enough to keep 
or see, I never heard one utter any cry whatsoever. But Mr. Gurney 
[‘Zoologist,’ 1900, p. 104] mentions the fact of hearing “two 
Spoonbills in confinement, which had been dumb for a long time, 
suddenly, under the influence of a warm day, began a rather feeble 
duet.” Saw nineteen Goclwits and a Greenshank same date. 
May 12th. A small Albino Brill, with red-brown rings encircling 
the eyes. 
May 18th. Myriads of the larvse of the Tipula, or “Daddy 
Long-legs,” turning up on the grass on the Beach Gardens, which 
they ravaged. The Sparrows would not look at them [vide 
September 5th], 
The only species of fish new to this locality that has come to 
hand since last year, was brought to me on May 21st by a Shrimper, 
viz., an example of the Gattorugine ( Blennius gattorugine) which 
measured 4 inches in length. This is an interesting addition to 
the Norfolk List. 
May 25th. Counted sixteen Turnstones on the Breydon flint- 
walls. When undisturbed they nimbly hunted among the Bladder- 
wrack in search of Gammarus marinus , desisting each time I rowed 
