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piece bitten out of the back, the work of the rapacious Piked 
Dogfish. 
October 24th. I obtained an Anchovy, 6f inches long. 
Quite a considerable number of full-grown Scads or “ Horse- 
Mackerel ” were washed up on the beach on October 27th. 
This species is in no request as food at Yarmouth, and when 
the herring nets are hauled in they are invariably thrown back 
into the sea. Saw a Hock of some 40 Snow-buntings pass the 
same afternoon. 
On November 7th I obtained a very curious Red Gurnard, 
a freak. The lower lip was drawn back under the head until 
it was in the relative position of that of a Dogfish, the upper 
lip being in its normal position. 
In the “ bag ” of a small Cuttlefish (Loligo vulgaris) whose 
body was but ii inches long, 1 found a young Herring i| inch 
long, the tail protruding curiously out of the cephalopod’s 
pouch. 
November. All through this month the greatest number 
of Gulls I ever remember frequented Breydon in their intervals 
of pursuing the herring-fleet on the North Sea.. Quite 7,000 
Gulls must have swarmed the place on one occasion of my 
visiting it. These birds are most certainly on the increase. 
November 18th. A Little Gull (Laras minutus) shot at the 
harbour mouth. 
November 20th. Great numbers of Lapwings coming over 
with Wood Pigeons, Fieldfares and Larks. 
November 23rd. Three Bean-Geese in the Market, from 
Breydon. There were five in the flock. 
November 30th. Prodigious numbers of Linnets and other 
finches heading the Coast. 
WINTER AND WILD BIRDS. 
December 31SL 1906. After a long succession of “ open ” 
winters, something akin to the “ old-fashioned winters ” 
obtained during the last week of this year. On December 22nd. 
it rained heavily well into the night, next day snow began to 
