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XI. 
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES FROM YARMOUTH. 
I5y A. Patterson. 
Read 29th March, ISOS. 
BIRDS. 
Woodcock. — One taken alive in the street, March 20th, 1897. 
Bram bungs. — Unusually numerous in neighbourhood during 
March, 1897. 
Spoonbill. — A lino one loitering about Breydon, April 27th, 
1897, and two or throe days previously. Another, May 23rd — 29th. 
Suklducks. — Three examples of this beautiful Duck, evidently 
searching for Winkles, on Breydon Flats, May 7th, 1897 ; four 
more on May 15th. 
Turnstones. — Several on Breydon on May 15th, 1897 ; six on 
Breydon in the morning, and twenty at night fall of May 21st. 
Grkensuanks. — Five on Breydon, May 21st. 
Black Tern. — Only met with one example this year, viz., on 
June 3rd, 1897. * 
Dunlins, etc. — About sixty Dunlins, Ringed Plovers, and 
Redshanks in one flock, on Breydon, June 26th, 1897. Curlews 
were in some numbers by the 29th. Over one hundred Redshanks, 
mostly birds of the year bred in the neighbourhood, in one flock 
near my house-boat. Their clamour was incessant. 
Fawn-coloured Sparrow. — A Sparrow of a decidedly fawn 
colour was shot at Ormesby, July 23rd. 
Spoonbill. — Saw one on Breydon busily scooping on a flat near 
the North Wall Drain on July 31st. It was in company with 
Gulls. The Spoonbill is very sociable in its habits. 
Common Sandpipers. — Saw twelve of these birds in company 
up the North River, August 4th. 
