MR. A. H. PATTERSON ON YARMOUTH NATURAL HISTORY. 
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cheek, was of the same colour as the upper side, the red 
spots being present also. Strangely enough, another exactly 
like it was shewn me on September 10th. Probably they 
were of the selfsame brood. 
Probably owing to the long-continued drought, Crane Flies 
(“ Daddy Longlegs ”) were abnormally scarce on the Breydon 
marshes this September. 
September 17th. Oysterstalkers had been unusually 
numerous on the beach this month. 
Three Snow Buntings had arrived on October 1st. 
October 18th. A number of drowned migrants washed up 
on the beach, including Starlings, Thrushes, Blackbirds, 
Skylarks; also found remains of a Woodpigeon, Redbreast, 
and Chaffinch. 
October 19th. Lately Gold-crested Wrens had been 
extremely numerous, as had Redbreasts. The latter appeared 
to be very quarrelsome ; the former had been preyed on by 
cats until they wearied of the hunt of such small morsels 
whose downy feathers gave them so much trouble. 
A Grey Shrike alighted on Gorleston Pier in October ; and 
during the migratory period, a Short-eared Owl and a Barn 
Owl had alighted on the “ Leman and Ower” Light-vessel, as 
had some five or six Kestrels. 
October 24th. A large school of White-beaked Dolphins 
( Delphinus albirostris) were observed going south. 
October 28th. Saw Gulls ferociously attacking a wave- 
wearied Guillemot off the harbour mouth. 
Five Woodcocks flew in fiom sea early on the morning of 
November 6th. These alighted behind a sand-dune, where 
they were stalked by a grocer named Whilev, who killed two 
of them at one shot as they sat perched up, already fast 
asleep. 
A Little Gull shot on November 26th. 
A Sunfish ( Orthagorisens mola) washed ashore at Shering- 
ham on the same date ; and on the 29th a 4-foot example of 
