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Rh Woodcock.—These birds were plentiful towards the end of the month, upwards of twenty were hanging for sale in our fish-market on the 28th.

Lapwing.—Two large flocks of these birds were seen at Northrepps on the 1st, going west, and on the 4th large numbers were observed passing W.N.W., and from their cries it would seem that their flight continued also during the night of the 4th, or at least some part of it. About the 15th immense flocks of Lapwings and Golden Plovers were observed in the same neighbourhood at Beeston Regis, and up to the close of the year the numbers of both Golden and Gray Plovers reported on the western side of the county, at Lynn, have been very unusual.

Peregrine.—One shot at South Walsham early in the month.

Bittern.—A single example was killed somewhere in the county on the 4th, and one at Beccles about the middle of the month.

Rough-legged Buzzard.—An immature bird killed at Sidestrand, near Cromer, in the first week of November, was no doubt the same observed on the 3rd at Sheringham, mobbed by a Hooded Crow, and on the 4th at Northrepps, all closely adjoining. I have also seen three other specimens, all immature, killed in Norfolk during this month.

Wood Pigeon.— On the 3rd of this month, and again on the 12th, 13th, and 14th, very large flocks of Wood Pigeons were observed at Northrepps early in the morning, apparently coming in from the sea.

Sea Eagle.—A single bird was seen at Sheringham, and subsequently at Beeston Regis, about the 9th of this month.

Common Guillemot.—On the morning of the 2nd a Common Guillemot was taken alive in the garden of the Rev. Mr. Norgate, of Sparham, near Norwich. It was found flapping along the walks, apparently fatigued, but uninjured. There had been much wind a night or two before from the west and northwest, but on the previous night by no means sufficient to account for its appearance, so very far inland, by the supposition that it had been caught in a gale, and so involuntarily carried away from the coast.

Honey Buzzard.—Mr. Baker, of Cambridge, informs me that on