NOTES FROM YARMOUTH. 321 
October ; a rather unusual resort for this marsh-loving 
species. 
October 14th. Saw my first Snow-bunting of the year, 
busily employed among the seeds of the Michaelmas Daisy 
(Aster trifolium ) on Breydon walls. A couple of Swallows 
“set upon’’ it as they passed; an incident suggesting their 
dislike to these harbingers of wintry days. 
A Y ellow Wagtail on the Breydon marshes as late as Oct. 14th. 
A Glaucous Gull reported to me by a gunner as consorting 
with the many “ Grey” and Black-backed Gulls at the harbour 
mouth, for some time in October. It managed to keep 
beyond gunshot, but at length met its fate on Breydon. 
It was a singularly white Gull. 
Rooks “ pouring in ” latter end of October. Hooded 
Crows coming over in straggling flocks. 
Redbreasts much in evidence during the first week in 
November — many of them undoubtedly migrants. 
November 8th. I saw a fine example of the Scad or “ Horse- 
mackerel ” ( Trachurus trachurus) taken in a draw-net on 
Breydon. And a number of Sprats, most unusual there, were 
taken about the same time. 
November ioth. A “ Ringed ” variety of the Guillemot 
was shot near the harbour mouth. 
November nth. A third Storm Petrel was brought in by 
a fishing- boat. 
When strolling from Gorleston to Corton by the beach on 
the afternoon of November 15th, I was pleased to see a flock 
of at least 200 Scoters “ riding at anchor ” and fishing in the 
roads. There is a sort of “ hard ground ” bottom here, 
where the Shrimpers find much Sabcllcv, and other “dross,” 
as they term it, and a goodly bed of Radiated Trough Shells 
(Mactra stidtorum), and the Scoters find much to interest them. 
November 14th. Wind S.E. On the 15th a number of Grey 
Plovers in the neighbourhood. 
November 17th. A pair of Bearded Tits seen at St. Olaves. 
I afterwards saw the male bird — dead. Their unusual appear- 
ance at St. Olaves would suggest a likely return to an old 
nesting haunt. 
