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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
It is worthy of mention that in the ditch on the west side of 
Caister Road the microscopic life appeared to change from week to 
week ; certain forms being abundant one week, and absolutely 
missing the next, My experience is that wind drives most rotifers 
to the bottom, or, it may be, destroys them.— H. E. IIurrell. 
Breeding of the Curlew in Norfolk. — In the volume of the 
‘Zoologist’ for 1889, p. 306, Mr. Gurney mentions, on the authority 
of Mr. W. E. Baker, the interesting fact that a Curlew was believed 
to have bred on the Sandringham Estate. As on a previous occasion 
I had been greatly disappointed, on investigating a similar report of 
the nesting of this bird in another part of the county, to find that 
the eggs taken were those of the Stone Curlew, I thought it best 
to endeavour to substantiate Mr. Baker’s belief before using the 
information for another purpose, and am happy to be able to confirm 
that gentleman’s statement, and to give some additional particulars 
of the event. 
On writing to my friend Mr. Kingston Rudd, who holds an 
official position on the estate and resides at Wolferton, asking him 
to interview Salmon, the keeper named, and suggesting certain 
questions he should put to him, Mr. Rudd replied that Salmon was 
still on the Prince’s estate, and that he perfectly remembered the 
Long-billed Curlew, a bird quite familiar to him, nesting on the 
Dersingham or Wolferton Een (it is merely a question of boundary), 
quite close to where he was rearing his Pheasants, and that he had 
abundant opportunities of observing it, especially when the male 
bird flew off to the sea (not far distant) every night. He saw the 
nest and four eggs, his description of which answered to those of 
the Curlew, and states that the bird hatched off and reared her 
young. Salmon further states that he found another nest with eggs 
in about the same place the next year (1890), but has not seen the 
birds there since. Mr. Rudd adds that Curlews, which are plentiful 
in the neighbourhood of Wolferton, are well known to the keepers, 
and that he does not for a moment doubt the man’s truthfulness. 
As this is the first authentic instance of this bird having been 
known to nest in Norfolk, and as it adds one more species to the 
list of those which have done so, I think it is desirable that it 
should be recorded in our ‘Transactions.’ — T. Southwell. 
