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time, but the shrimper, who is collecting specimens for his 
own amusement, would not part with it. 
March 2nd. Examined a very dark example of the Rock 
Pipit which had been shot at the harbour mouth. 
March 31st. A great many dead examples of Corophimn 
longicorne floating on the top of a ditch near Breydon walls. 
A flight of Water-rails appears to have passed on March 31st. 
A tired out example was brought me, having been fished out 
of the river on that date, and a second was picked up dead 
under the telegraph wires on the South Denes on April 1st. 
April 8th. Watched a Snipe “ drumming,” had a good 
view of him from behind a scrubby tree, and am quite convinced 
that the noise is produced by the forcing of air through the 
spread tail feathers by means of the wings. 
On April nth a Hermit Crab that had found up an 
empty snail shell and appropriated it, was brought me from 
a shrimp-boat. The shell, polished by the action of the sea, 
was singularly beautiful for Helix aspersa. 
April 17th. Quite a couple of hundred Wigeon on Breydon ; 
and on same date 1 obtained a fine example of the common 
Prawn (Palcemon serratus), also from Breydon, a most unusual 
locality. 
As late as April 26th a Hooded Crow remained on the 
mudflats. 
On the same date a very pretty Bubalis (Cottus bubalis) 
came to hand : length 2§ inches, and subsequently some 
others. 
April 30th. Two Montagu’s Suckers ( Liparis montagui), 
both females, and a Megrim, Ur “ Scald-fish,” 4^ inches long, 
were brought me by a shrimper. And on May 1st, two more 
Montagu’s Suckers, each heavy in spawn. 
During the dry weather in May the Wireworms attacked the 
Earthworms on the St. George’s Park, fixing themselves 
to the middle of their victims, and simply draining them of 
the moisture in their bodies. Hundreds came to the surface, 
sometimes with these larvae attached, and died. 
That pretty little Cephalopod, the Little Squid ( Scpicla 
rondcletti), was exceedingly abundant this spring; a shrimper’s 
