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NOTES FROM YARMOUTH. 
J he September of 1908 witnessed quite an invasion of Crane- 
flies ( Ttpula oleracea). For two or three weeks their numbers 
ran into millions; they smothered the marshland, and 
festooned the walls of Breydon and the river ; on the taller 
glasses on top of which they hung until they looked like over- 
ripe reed-tufts. As one brushed through the herbage they 
rose in clouds ahead, mile after mile. They were courting in 
the earlier part of the month, and later on the females were 
observed laying their eggs among the grass-roots. With 
a slight breeze the weakened females were blown into the 
water , Breydon was dotted all over with struggling and dead 
insects , and a black wavy line of their corpses washed up at 
the tide mark on the beach. During the third week in Sep- 
tember the males, lethargic and evidently chilled, thronged 
the walls, and they, too, had disappeared by the last week in 
the month. The same super-abundance occurs at an interval 
of every three or four years. 
September 19th. A sudden change of wind from S.W. to 
S.E. brought in a considerable number of Grey Plovers. 
1 saw 40 in one bunch. 
October 10th. Last night several beach boats put off with 
their longshore nets, and fished off Winterton. There had 
been a goodly inshoring of the Herrings, and the boats' home- 
coming provided an interesting sight that one has seldom 
seen in recent years. Three or four men manned a boat. 
They returned with their nets gleaming with beautiful fish, 
some with as many as 7000 for their catch. Salesmen’s 
carts fetched them from the beach to the wharf, providing the 
fishermen with “ trunks ” to place them in. They realised 
from two shillings upwards, per hundred. 
On October 12th a few Golden Plovers visited Breydon. 
This species has certainly fallen off in numbers in recent years. 
The stomachs of one or two I examined contained very small 
Winkles and Hydrobid. 
October 16th. A clean-killed female Ring Ousel was 
picked up below some telegraph wires ; and a goodly sized 
Hock of Redwings came to St. George’s Park, in the centre 
of the town. 
October iSth. First Woodcock seen. A small example in 
