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straightway put its bill under wing-coverts and fell fast asleep. 
1 disturbed it once or twice by shifting my boat a few feet and 
hallooing, but it only took pains to keep a low stump between 
it and myself, and persisted in falling asleep after moving a 
few inches. On the 15th a number of young Dunlins refused 
to take wing, and would only run when half-an-oar’s length 
from the bow of my boat. No wonder Dunlins, Knots, and 
other wading birds of the year — the advance guard of the 
migrating flocks — suffer so at the hands of gunners content 
with unsportsmanlike methods and small game. 
September 18th. A young live Guillemot was brought to me 
at my house-boat, having been picked up by a lad on a rond. 
The primaries were not even showing, and the bird had certainly 
never flown ; it was exhausted, very dirty, and had in all 
probability floated from the Yorkshire coast on a heavy tide, 
and come up with the flood to Breydon. 
A marked influx of Kingfishers was noticed on the same 
date. 
September 25th. A Heron, high in the air, just at sundown 
passed over my head on the North Denes flying seaward, and 
due east. I followed it with my glasses until it faded out of 
sight. 
Lapland Bunting taken the day before (September 24th). 
Subsequently a few others. 
In September I saw two common Collared Doves that had 
been caged 12 and 25 years respectively. They were in 
excellent condition. 
On October 10th, a very beautiful Gasteropod, Aplysia 
punctata, was sent me from Cromer by the Rev. H. C. Fitch. 
On October 13th, a Dabchick was shown me at the Fish- 
wharf, which had been brought in from sea on a fishing-lugger, 
against whose galley the poor little thing had struck in an 
erratic attempt at flight across seas. The vessel was fishing 
forty miles out at the time. 
On the same afternoon, as I was going to the Wharf, a 
Woodcock struck a telegraph wire near Beeching’s dock, and 
fell on the road, where it was picked up with the upper part 
of the skull so badly cut that only a piece of skin held it. A 
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