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Crested Grebe and Sheld-duck, were rapidly following ; but 
now, happily, all the latter are as steadily increasing in 
numbers, and even the Bearded Tit is more than holding its 
own, whilst the former long death roll of slaughtered passing 
summer migrants is annually replaced by a list of rare species 
observed. It is no longer needful to speak with bated breath 
of the precise nesting resorts of the gregarious shore-breeding 
birds, for there are no less than four Societies, all supported 
by voluntary contributions, employing watchers for their 
protection, the reports of which, for 1905, we have received, 
and they are most encouraging. 
The first of these, taking them seriatim, is the Wolferton 
Society, to which H.M. the King is the largest contributor, 
ably seconded by H.R.H. the Prince of Wales, who takes 
a personal and active interest in the objects of the move- 
ment, the results of which are reported to be satisfactory 
in every way, the past live seasons having greatly increased 
not only the numbers both of the Greater and Lesser Terns 
and Ring Dotterels breeding on the fore-shore, but also those 
of the Sheld-ducks. The watcher takes great interest in his 
duties, and has supplied valuable notes on the species over 
which he is appointed guardian to the Hon. Secretary, Mr. 
George Cresswell of Hunstanton, and those who have visited 
the breeding j’places expressed their great pleasure at the 
manner in which the work has been carried on and the 
progress made in the efforts to re-establish the all but 
exhausted colonies. 
Blakeney and Cley. — Here again the results have been 
most satisfactory ; Lord Calthorpe, the principal owner of 
the fore-shore, being the chief supporter of the Society, but 
the amount subscribed appears to be lamentably small for 
the work to be accomplished, only about £10 being at the 
disposal of the Hon. Secretary, Mr. Q. E. Gurney of 
Northrepps Hall, who would be glad of further support. 
The chief enemies to the birds, — plume hunters and eggers, — 
have been effectually banished from all the nesting 
localities, but rats and stoats are very troublesome, and have 
