MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ANI) OBSERVATIONS. 
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Wild Bird Protection on the Norfolk Coast. — It is 
with great pleasure that we have again received excellent 
reports from the Secretaries of the various Bird Protection 
Societies of the valuable work carried on by them on the 
Norfolk coast. 
WOLFERTON WlLD BIRDS PROTECTION SOCIETY. — Mr. 
George Cresswell. the Hon. Sec. of this Society, which is under 
the patronage of H. M. the King, writes that the season of 
1906 has been the best yet recorded ; all the birds showing 
a marked increase. The Common Terns have nested in large 
numbers, and the colony of Lesser Terns has largely increased. 
These beautiful birds being in much greater numbers than 
heretofore. The Ring Dotterels have not only increased in 
numbers on the protected ground, but have spread to other 
parts. The Sheld-ducks have increased in number, and Wild 
Ducks, and Shovellers have also nested in numbers. When 
we compare this state of things with the melancholy account 
of the devastation to which the two species of Terns and the 
Sheld-duck were formerly subjected in this district as set 
forth in the ‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ one cannot but rejoice at the 
rescue of these beautiful birds from the destruction then 
impending, and all this has been effected at the trifling Dutlay 
in money of £15. 
