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deal about birds— the yellow ones were Linnets and the little 
dull coloured ones were Sparrows, they were the young birds 
that could not fly very well. And another person said on 
seeing one of the birds open its beak, “ They must be tired,” 
he had “ just seen one of them yawn ! ” 
When we woke next morning all the fog had gone, and our 
journey ended at last. 
II. 
A WEEK IX BRECKLAND. 
By W. G. Ci.arke. 
Read 2()th September, iqoS. 
To judge of the fauna and flora of any district by an 
examination during any one week of the year is to gain but 
a fragmentary idea of its variety and extent, but viewed 
simply as a portion of a whole and as a seasonal record it 
may not be without interest. From August 2 Sth to September 
6th I spent most of the hours of daylight on the heathland 
in the vicinity of Thetford. Day after day a companion and 
I wandered about without seeing any individual whom it 
was possible to speak to ; not once during the week did we 
meet anybody on the heaths, or public tracks across them. 
This may in part be accounted for by the unsettled weather, 
heavy rain and thunderstorms prevailing all the time, with 
a temperature much below the normal 
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