Il6 MR. A. PATTERSON’S NATURAL EIISTORY NOTES. 
very similar accident occurred to another, the breast being 
also cut to the bone, early in December. 
October igth. Great Grey Shrike shot at Belton. On 
the same date I observed many half-putrid Herrings washed up 
by a “driving” tide. An inshoring tide had washed these 
ashore, with a great quantity of broken seaweeds. Many 
hundreds of various Gulls lined the shore, or floated lazily 
beyond the breakers, gorged with their feast. 
October 28th. A friend, by no means well versed in 
ornithology, described to me a bird, without a shadow of 
doubt, a Hoopoe, that his son, a golf attendant at Caister, had 
shot on the links, and given to his ferrets, last spring. 
November. During a north-west gale early in November, 
a great number of Lapwings came over. On the 12 th 
many were brought into the market. It is a curious fact, 
which I have before noticed, that large migratory flocks 
usually arrive on an adverse wind, and invariably land 
very tired, and with apparently laboured flight. 
Brent Geese, which seem to be much rarer here than in years 
gone by, were in some numbers heading south in the middle of 
November. Some Swans were seen, and a great addition to 
the various Ducks was noted in the neighbourhood. 
November 17th. A full-grown Herring was handed to me 
on whose back was a huge swelling, which Mr. Southwell 
described as an encysted hydatid tumour. This is an 
unusual thing in Herrings. All the parts in its neighbourhood 
were much congested, and the tumour contained watery 
fluid. 
On November 23rd, a “ Bull-dog ” variety of the Cod, 
10 lbs. in weight, was caught. 
December, an exceedingly blank month. 
