760 mr. a. h. pattersox’s natural history 
market on the 21st. There was a decided immigration on 
October 24th. 
October 24th. Two Cormorants seen on the beach, and 
I picked up dead Chaffinch, Hedge Sparrow, and Redbreast 
at the tide-mark. 
Scads ( T radiums tr a churns ) or “ Horse-mackerel,” were 
numerously taken in the herring-nets in the latter part of 
October. 
October 28. Big influx of various Corvines to-day, and 
many Redbreasts in the neighbourhood on the 29th. 
November 1st. Observed a flock of 20 Larks come straight 
in from the eastward, at 3.30 p.m. I should suspect these 
started from the Continent in the morning ; this species, like 
several other perchers, more often arrives between daybreak 
and early noon ; probably they would start on the afternoon 
previously. A Woodcock flew over my head in a busy part of 
the town and vanished over one of the old towers. I was 
amused at a couple of urchins, who took off caps and flung at 
it as it flew by. 
November 2nd. Storm Petrel brought me alive. It was 
very weak, but after a little persuasion swallowed a piece of 
herring-milt. We had had no rough weather, and it is strange 
that it should have alighted on board a fishing drifter. 
November 5th. The following birds were strewn along 
the beach between Yarmouth and Caister : 3 Rooks, 1 Crow, 
4 Redwings, 1 Lark. The Crow was entire ; the “ Hoodies ” 
had been feasting on the Rooks ; and only one Redwing was 
entire. On the 7th I picked up the remains of a Hooded 
Crow that had been cleaned picked by its fellows. 
Same date : the beach was strewn with primary and other 
feathers, bespeaking a moulting of Gulls. In the middle of 
October great numbers of primaries of the Greater Black- 
backed Gull were washed up with the debris at the tide-mark 
on the south beach. 
Among a consignment of Norwegian Lobsters ( Neprops 
norwegicus) I found several with variously distorted pincer 
claws. This species is more subject to variation in its legs 
and claws than any other crustacean I know. In ten indi- 
viduals, also taken at random, the right pincer claw of four or 
