MIGRATION AND OTHER ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. 
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Hooded Crow ( C . comix). — This species often, but not 
always, was seen travelling with Rooks and Jackdaws, the 
numbers, however, were always fewer. Immigrants first 
noticed on October 13th, after which date on many days up 
to November 9th arrivals were noted coming in from the 
East and sometimes S.E. ; all went straight inland, the last 
immigrants seen on November 20th. 
During the spring flocks were first noted on March 28th 
going east, and again each day from April 11th to 15th. 
Like the Daws and Rooks this species was seen to arrive 
from the west and collect in the coastal fields before “ taking 
off,” and the same general remarks apply to this species as to 
the preceding. 
Swift ( Cypselus apus). — Numbers collecting on August 
20th, and after 22nd a decided decrease up to September 
3rd, after which date none till 11th when three were seen 
going south. 
Nightjar ( Caprimulgus europceus) — First heard in spring 
on May 4th. 
Wryneck ( Junx torquilla ). — First seen April 25th, a pass- 
ing bird. 
Hoopoe ( Upupa epops). — Two seen at Caistor, May 2nd 
(Quinton) ; one at Yarmouth, August 30th (Patterson). 
Cuckoo ( Cuculus canorus). — First heard on April 23rd ; on 
May 12th one coasting to the north. This species seemed 
scarce in the neighbourhood. 
Short-eared Owl ( Asio accipitrinus). — One at Yarmouth, 
October 21st ; one near Lowestoft November 4th, and another 
on the 6th. One on passage April 12th. 
Rough-legged Buzzard (. Buteo lagopus). — One seen on 
November 6th. 
Merlin ( Falco cesalon). — One on passage October 7th ; one 
adult on 12th taken on a boat 26 miles east of Spurn Light 
vessel ; one coasting north on April 14th. 
