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MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Your Memorialists are the more emboldened in preferring this Memorial 
from the fact that they do so with the full approval of the Right Honourable 
the Earl of Leicester, K.G., the Lord Lieutenant of the County, and owner 
of the soil on which the chief breeding place of the shore birds in this 
County is situate. 
Your Memorialists therefore pray that you will be pleased to take the 
matter into your consideration, and thereupon make application to a 
Secretary of State for an Order extending the time during which the killing 
and taking of all Wild Birds, except only Wild Duck, is prohibited by the 
Wild Birds Protection Act, 1880, so as to include the whole month of 
August in each year. 
Dated this 20th day of March, 1S98. 
(Signed) 
A. W. PRESTON, President, 
Norfolk & Norwich Naturalists’ Society. 
W. A. NICHOLSON, Hon. Secretary. 
This having been approved by the County Council, the following 
Order was made by the Secretary of State, thus extending the 
operation of the Act, as desired. 
IY. “The period during which the killing or taking of Wild Birds is 
prohibited by the Act of 1880, shall be extended throughout the Count}' of 
Norfolk, so far as regards all birds mentioned in the Schedule to that Act, 
except the Snipe, Teal and all species of Wild Duck, so as to be from the 
1st March to the 31st August in any year.” 
XIV. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS. 
Albatros in Cambridgeshire. — An Albatros, which has since 
been identified as Diomedea melanoph ri/s, was caught on the Streetley 
Hall Farm, near Linton in Cambridgeshire, on the 9th July, by 
a labourer, named Samuel Barker, who killed and took it to 
