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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
where a race exhibiting this peculiarity is known as Nucifraga 
caryocatactes macrorhynchus . The Swiss Nutcracker, which 
generally has a thicker bill, stands as N. c. caryocatactes. 
J. H. Gurney. 
Supposed Lanius Meridionalis, Tem, in Norfolk. — 
In the eighth volume of the Transactions (page 352) a 
supposed example of the Southern or Spanish Grey-Shrike 
(Z. meridionalis ), which had been killed at Drayton, is 
recorded. Having been submitted to Mr. H. F. Witherby 
and Dr. Hartert, and by them compared with a much larger 
series of Shrike skins than were at my disposal, it has been 
decided by these gentlemen that this bird cannot be an 
example of L. meridionalis in winter plumage, as I thought, 
but only a rather dark Z. ex cubitor, a species well known as a 
not uncommon visitant to England. — J. H. Gurney. 
Some Suffolk Ornithological Notes for 1911-12. — 
The most notable occurrence was that of the Siberian Nut- 
cracker, a female of the year being killed at Beyton on 
November 10th. In January, prior to the cold snap which 
lasted from January 27th to February 6th, birds were rather 
restless. On the 23rd January a Dunlin was killed just 
outside Bury, by the ditches. On the 26th January an 
immature Cormorant at Hardwick, feeding with fowls, was 
shot by the keeper, who mistook it for a Hawk, and about 
this time another was taken at Culford. On February 4th a 
Tufted Duck and Little Auk were killed at Bardwell, and on 
February 6th a Crested Grebe was killed by the telegraph 
wires at Higham. The season was an unusually early one. 
Stock Doves were breeding the end of February; Snipe’s eggs 
were found on March 27th; on April 5th young Blackbirds 
were out of the nest; and on the 19th a Partridge’s nest with 
five eggs was found. The Cuckoo was heard on the 14th 
April within a mile of Bury, quite a week before the usual time. 
, . ,. W. H. Tuck. 
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