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a true conception of the functions and responsibilities of 
science, and dreaded slapdash, slipshod work ; indeed, it may 
be said with truth that the modest estimate he put on his 
own researches stood in the way of the recognition he deserved, 
and it might have been well for the cause of science itself 
had he been a little less modest and more insistent. However 
this may be, he was a man for whose scientific temper of 
mind every one who had even a slight acquaintance with him 
must have conceived the highest respect.” 
T. P. 
XVI. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Some Suffolk Ornithological Notes for 1911. — In January 
large flocks of Redpolls of both kinds appeared near Bury St. 
Edmund’s. They were very tame, and were fond of feeding 
on the heaps of refuse seeds put out after threshing. The 
high gales of this month drove inland several Green Cor- 
morants, one of these dashed itself against a bicycle light ; 
on reviving it became very tame and caught fish in a pond 
daily, but eventually got under the ice and was drowned. 
Two others of the same species took up their position on the 
Church of the same village (Lavenham). On March 27th an 
immature White-tailed Eagle was shot at Brandon, it had 
been feeding on rabbits. Last year a Blackbird’s nest in 
a snug ivy wall had two successive broods, and the same nest 
has this year been occupied again, probably by the same 
birds. On April 18th the Cuckoo was heard by many people 
at Tostock, an early record. A neighbour found a Cock 
Pheasant pulling and devouring his crocus bulbs, a novel 
pabulum for this bird, I think. — W. H. Tuck. 
