NOTES FROM YARMOUTH. 
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li\< may he much larger than the other, and in the remainder 
the left pincer claw will dominate in size. 
November 5th. A family party of nine Long-tailed Tits 
llew townwards up from the sea, crossed the houses in the 
Market Place, and went inland. 
Park-keeper Woods, an observant man, assured me that he 
had seen more Woodcocks in the park than for many years. 
< mid-crested Wrens were very numerously seen there swarming 
on the buck-thorns planted at corners of paths. A Grey Shrike 
alighted there on the 30th October. 
A nephew of mine, who spent October on board the Leman 
and Ower Lightship, assured me that the bird-migration had 
been considered a better one than for some time by the men 
on board — they obtained more. Starlings were so numerous 
on the 17th that they filled two buckets with dead and dying, 
that had struck the lantern. One night the door of the 
lantern was let t open a few minutes to cool it, when up rushed 
so many Starlings that they put out two of the lights. Small 
parties of Tree Sparrows, Gold-crests, and Chaffinches came, 
aboard, the Gold-crests in numerous instances huddled up 
anywhere, and died. Two Woodcocks flew aboard and 
“ hunched up under the windlass ” ; they were deftly captured, 
and shared the soup-pot with the commoner tramps. Gannets 
were numerously seen during the fishing season, and several 
“ Mollv-hawks ” (Skuas). “ Hawks ” were observed following 
in the wake of the smaller birds. My nephew assures me that 
as one of the men lay smoking in a recumbent attitude, a 
“ large fellow ” (from its description probably a Buzzard) 
swooped as if to attack him. caught its wing against one of 
the shrouds, breaking it, and fell into the sea. 
November 18. Saw a dock of quite 70 Jackdaws cross 
the Market Place. 
A Lilac tree near St. George’s Park, which had been infested 
with small white Caterpillars, had been most industriously 
freed by the Gold-crests, which dodged in and out of the 
branches, snapping up those that descended by their threads 
as well as those that crawled upon the twigs. 
On November 22nd 37 Swans were reported to me as seen 
