NOTES FROM YARMOUTH. 615 
80 (mostly young birds) and that they sold freely enough, he 
making a shilling a brace of them. This seemed to be truthful 
enough, for I had noticed several persons taking couples home, 
thinking, no doubt, of a “ nice cheap dinner” on the morrow. 
I did not envy the purchasers of these fish-tainted diving 
birds. The man assured me these birds were killed near 
Thetford ; did he mean near Lynn ? 
December was an exceedingly blank month. No Geese 
were reported; Ducks of all sorts in the immediate locality 
were conspicuously scarce. It was not until the last day or 
two of the year that frosts set in, and a few birds, temporarily 
frozen out from the Broads, visited Breydon. 
The Herring shoals were large, and record catches were 
made ; these were followed by huge squadrons of Gulls, which 
had a good time gleaning up putrid Herrings on the shore ; 
as well as pilfering fresh supplies when they chose to visit the 
fishing fleet. Cetaceans were scarce, no large species being 
reported ; only two or three Porpoises, thrown out from the 
herring-nets, were washed ashore. During a spell of easterly 
winds various flotsam was cast up, to which were attached 
colonies of Goose Barnacles (Lepas anitifera), to the great 
wonder and interest of ramblers by the seashore. 
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