66 mr. a. Patterson’s natural history notes from Yarmouth. 
being shown to me on this date. The fellow who took them 
appeared to think he had performed a praiseworthy deed. 
On the same date a Crab-claw of Cancer joagurus was given 
me, the free part of the nipper-claw had three points in lieu 
of one. 
July 19th. Young Dunlins on Breydon. 
Same date two boxes of Bergylts, or “Norway Haddocks,” on 
the Fish Wharf. One specimen weighed 4 lbs., measuring 20b 
inches in length. Several between 3 lbs. and 4 lbs. each in weight. 
As in the case of those previously mentioned, there was small 
demand for them, a few being purchased rather as novelties than 
from utilitarian motives. This catch, I believe, was from Icelandic 
waters. • 
July 20th. Heard the Golden Plover whistling overhead to-night. 
Fifty Bedshanks on Breydon, July 22nd. Not so numerous in 
this locality as last year. 
July 24th. A “family party” of seven Common Sandpipers on 
Breydon, noisily feeding. I am inclined to think them Norfolk 
bred. I saw eight, the largest party I have yet observed, on 
August 26th. 
A Common Gull choked itself with a Flounder on Breydon on 
evening of July 30th. I would have helped it, but it managed to 
get away in the gloaming. 
July 31st. A Hooded Crow at Burgh Castle. 
An inrush of Curlews took place on August 7th ; a few had been 
with us all summer. Subsequently hundreds made Breydon alive 
and noisy. Not a few never saw the 1st September. 
August 14th. Green Sandpiper on Breydon. This ditch-loving 
species becomes yearly scarcer. 
Early on the morning of August 17th a flock of Black-headed 
Gulls, on a flat immediately in front of my house-boat, were noisily 
feeding on the mud-worms, which were evidently frightened to the 
surface of the mud by a series of peculiar dancing manoeuvres 
performed by the birds. 
August 20th. Five Sheld-ducks on Breydon. 
August 22nd. A Cormorant passed over Breydon to-day. 
Terns were on Breydon unusually abundant during August. 
A large flock on evening of 23rd. Thirteen more on September 1st ; 
still more on September 3rd. 
