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wharf. On clambering aboard I was taken to the vicinity of 
the net-room, where I saw a poor Short-eared Owl doing 
miserable penance in a herring-barrel forefronted with a bit 
of herring-lint. 
On October 13th first Hooded Crow observed coming in. 
Many Corvidce trooping in on the 19th. Wind strong S. W. 
by S. 
October 17th. A Peregrine Falcon most persistently gave 
chase to a Greenshank near the entrance of Breydon, the 
latter screaming vociferously, and two or three times seeking 
refuge by diving into the water. The Falcon pursued the 
wader quite up to the vicinity of the town, when it wheeled 
around and went back disappointed to Breydon, on which 
its would-be quarry dashed over the houses on the east side 
of the river and made good its escape seawards. 
On the 20th October I saw a Garfish (B clone vulgaris), 
9 inches long, tipped out of the water, at the entrance of 
Breydon, by a lad who was fishing for Flounders, who observed 
it struggling among some seaweed in a space between some 
floating timber-baulks. 
October 23rd. A Pomatorhine Skua ( Stercorarius 
pomatorhinus ) brought in from the herring-grounds ; it had 
been entangled in the nets. 
Saw a Wheatear ( Saxicola cenanlhe ) as late as October 24th. 
Grey Wagtails ( Motacilla melanope) would seem, from the 
reports given me by bird-catchers, to have been by no means 
uncommon during October. 
November 3rd. A Grey Shrike ( Lanius excubitor) shot in 
a garden near the Bure ; and a decided inrush of Redbreasts. 
November 14th. A remarkable number of Piked Dogs 
( Acanthias vulgaris) netted among Smelts on Breydon. Some 
were 2 feet in length. I fear I rather cruelly amused myself 
by turning two or three into a ditch which was brackish, at 
the rear of the “ walls,” where they swam in brisk undulating 
fashion as if they did not much mind the change. 
November 16th. A West-countryman in the market with 
a large tub of wild Rabbits, slung in couples round the tub. 
I observed numerous Scoters ; he assured me he had brought 
