ADDITIONS TO THE NORWICH CASTLE MUSEUM. 637 
Museum. It consists mainly of the specimens collected by Mr. 
F. G. Bridgman’s father, the late William Kencely Bridgman, 
L.D.S., who, in conjunction with his son, J. B. Bridgman, 
published a list of Norfolk Non-marine Mollusca in our Trans- 
actions for January, 1872. 
The number of visitors to the Castle Museum, as recorded by 
the turnstiles, was 118,072, against 130,284 in the previous 
year. 
XI. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Wild Bird Protection on the Norfolk Coast. — We 
have received the Reports of the Wolferton, Blakeney and 
Cley, and Breydon Wild Bird Protection Societies for the year 
1912, from which the following notes are extracted:— 
At Wolferton the Watcher was on duty from April 8th to 
July 20th, and saw Common and Lesser Terns for the first 
on April 20th. The first eggs of the Lesser Tern were found 
on May 12th, and of the Common Tern on May 1+th ; and the 
total number of nests of both species (and of the Ringed Plover) 
was in excess of that of the previous year. There were 73 
nests of the Lesser Tern as against 59 in 1911, 100 nests of the 
Common Tern as against 73, and 66 of the Ringed Plover as 
against 49. Mr. Cresswell, the Hon. Sec. of the Society, 
observes, however, that he estimates that only about one quarter of 
the nests on the area are found and noted. The Redshanks have 
decreased on this breeding-ground, and “ show more and more 
a disposition to nest on the bare shingle.” A few nests were 
destroyed by high tides on July 16th and 17th, but on the whole 
the season was a most successful one for the birds 
Although Blakeney Point has now been acquired by the 
National Trust as a Nature Reserve, the Trustees have no 
funds available for paying a watcher ; it therefore devolves 
upon the local Society to continue its work of bird-protection, 
as hitherto. We feel sure that the Hon. Sec., Mr. Quintin 
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