NOTES FROM YARMOUTH. 
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Brents were seen, and a Grey Lag Goose killed. Hall’s game 
list lor the week was as follows.: — 
A few Golden Plovers hung about during the week, but 
were unusually shy. “ Hard Fowl,” e.g., Golden Eyed, 
Tufted Ducks, and Scaups seen in small bunches, but they 
were shy and wary. So many Pochards have not been killed 
or seen for many years. 
The few larger gulls remaining here were seen chasing 
uinvounded Dunlins whenever they flew near them, but these 
quick-turning little birds were too swift for them. The 
Hooded Crows forsook Breydon and the marshes and kept to 
the open river and shore. I saw a dead gull clean-picked by 
them — as much of it as was not frozen into the ice on a ditch. 
Kingfishers have been seen miserably sitting about on 
posts and rails, looking abject in their hunger ; and even those 
who have little pity, were sorry for their plight. One came 
and tapped on the window in Hall’s houseboat : seeing the 
light through it, it might possibly mistake it for an open arch- 
way. While out shooting on one occasion, he left the door 
of the houseboat open, and a Wagtail that had been hanging 
around for scraps went in and cleared the fragments off his 
dinner-plate, and when killing a wounded Mallard by cutting 
its throat, so as not to damage its neck (as wringing it will 
sometimes do), the blood dripped and congealed on the snow 
on the forepeak of the punt, a hungry Starling flew down on 
the boat and ravenously ate the crimsoned snow, and when 
driven away, returned again and ate more of it. 
Hall said the 23rd was “a wildfowl day beyond all memory.” 
Some small return bunches visited Breydon on the 28th and 
29th. The ice formed so rapidly on the night of the 29th 
that he had to return from the drain to his houseboat, having 
no ice-hook to cut a way through, but on the 30th he managed 
to cut his way out to open water. 
1 Swan 
34 Mallard and Duck 
6 Pochards (“Pokers”) 
6 Wigeon 
1 Teal (only one seen) 
1 Golden Plover 
1 Crested Grebe 
60 Coots 
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