570 mr. a. Patterson’s natural history notes from Yarmouth. 
In the middle of October a number of Shorelarks ( Otocorys 
alpestris) were taken. 
Nov. 10th. Was quite a Jackdaw day. I saw Hocks up to 
fifty at a time pass over. 
On November 18th an example of the Lesser Forkbeard 
(Raniceps raninus) was washed ashore during a rough sea. 
Length 10| inches. 
On November 23rd. An inrush of Dunlins and other shore- 
birds, also some Godwits. Wind S.E. strong. 
On November 27th. Glossy Ibis ( Plegadis falcinellus) shot by 
a wherryman, near Ludham, on the Bure. 
1903. 
A Shag (Phalacrocorax graculus) caught on the beach early in 
January was brought to me alive, but was so exhausted by want 
of food and by the buffetings of the waves that it never recovered, 
dying in a few hours in my aviary. Strong wind from S.E. 
During the first week in January a large Seal was seen about 
Breydon. It was shot at several times, but eventually got away 
apparently unhurt. 
About the 8th January nine White-fronted Geese (Anser 
albifrons) on Breydon. 
In February I had a conversation with a lightsman employed on 
the Outer Dowsing. He told me that in the previous November 
an unusually large number of Rooks and Crows, with Hooded 
Crows and Jackdaws, visited the vessel. On one or two occasions 
during foggy weather they settled on every conceivable place 
affording foothold— ropes, bulwarks, rigging, lantern, and went 
to sleep there. He estimated they had on one occasion fully 
a thousand birds at one time. They knocked them down wholesale. 
In the morning the decks looked as if they had been whitewashed. 
Unusual numbers of Conger Eels ( Conger vulgaris) with Ling 
(Mulva vulgaris) on the fish stalls, latter end of February. 
Six Jackdaws took up their quarters in the parish church steeple, 
early in March, and subsequently some others. I believe they 
have settled there for nesting purposes. This they did successfully. 
Rooks again took possession of the trees in the old disused 
burial ground behind the Butchery in the market-place. At the 
time of writing (April 22nd), six nests have weathered the 
