398 mr. a. Patterson’s natural history notes from Yarmouth. 
within its reach. It would run up and down with its wings raised 
vertically, uttering a peepy cry, very like that of a newly-hatched 
Turkey chick. It lived only a few days with me. A second was 
brought alive to the Wharf, a day or two after, which I did not 
purchase. 
I found a Jelly-fish, which I believed to be Rliizostoma cuvieri, 
at the Harbour mouth in the middle of October. 
October 22nd. A “Jackdaw” day ! Flocks coming in. 
Kingfishers, I think, turned up more numerously in September 
and October than usual. 
October 27th. Twenty-four Scaups passed over my head on 
Breydon, wind S. W. Most of the more noticeable migratorial 
movements appear to have occurred on this wind this year. 
Quite a glut of immigrating Lapwings on the same date : this 
species invariably seem to arrive with a tired air, being usually 
well-fleshed and heavy, and not so strong on the wing as its sharper 
pinioned confreres the Grey and Golden Plovers. 
October 27tb. One Wimbrel and some Redshanks on Breydon. 
October 31st. A well-plumaged g Great Grey Shrike flew 
aboard the Steam Drifter “ 17,” but died from exhaustion and want 
of proper food. 
During the first week in November many thousands of Macro, 
stultorum (Radiated Trough Shell) were washed ashore at Gorleston, 
with numbers of Starfishes, Uraster rubens, Solaster papposa, and 
Orphiocoma rosula. Wind E., strong. 
An Anchovy taken on or about November 2nd. The following 
entry in my note-book is worthy of notice : — 
November 12th. “ Glass falling rapidly. Gale came on at night.” 
„ 13th. “During a lull in the gale last night, the air 
overhead was alive with Golden Plovers and other migrating 
waders, wind-muddled and light-attracted. Some Snipe were 
distinctly'- heard among them.” 
During the second week in November, I saw an Octopus ( Octopus 
vulgaris) on board a lugger that had been caught entangled in the 
nets. The body was the size of a lemon with tentacles of about 
a foot in length. This is an unusual catch, especially so near the 
surface. 
November 16th. Wind E.N.E. Fine, but very wild sky, huge 
red clouds like mountain ranges made the firmament grandly wild. 
