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Rh comes to Norfolk (see Col. Feilden's remarks, Norf. Norw. tr. v. p. 421).

18th.—A Greater Spotted Cuckoo, Coccystes glandarius, immature, with dark crown, rich buff chest, and very little crest, shot between Caister and Yarmouth golf-house. This bird (minus its tail, which was unfortunately scattered to the winds) was bought by Mr. E.C. Saunders, who forwarded the body. It was a male, with single-notched sternum, and with a simple projecting manubrium, very like our Common Cuckoo. The gizzard and œsophagus, which seemed very dilatable, contained fragments of black insects with yellow lines upon them, identified, after some trouble, by Messrs. R. McLachlan and C.O. Waterhouse as the larvæ of Pygæra bucephala, the Buff-tip Moth. This Cuckoo had probably come over the day before, when the wind was from the north, and most likely from the same place as the Macqueen's Bustard which was shot at Humber-mouth (also on the 18th), and perhaps from the Don or Volga. Or both of them may have come on the 16th, when there was wind amounting to a gale from the north-east, and this latter supposition is the more probable; while the Courser shot in Jersey on the 19th may have been of the party, in which case it is probably Cursorias bogolubovi, subspecies. There was a rush at Flamborough Head lighthouse on the night of the 16th, continuing to 4 a.m. on the 17th ('Naturalist,' 1897, p. 13).

19th.—Sclavonian Grebe at Yarmouth (E. Saunders). Numbers of Robins on the coast (Gunn); about this time there were thousands at Spurn Point (J. Cordeaux).

20th.—Mr. H. Pashley received a Black Redstart.

22nd.—N.W.Wood Lark and Shore Larks seen near Cley. Six Goldcrests on board 'The Cockle' light-vessel (Johnson).

23rd.—Two Velvet Scoters seen at sea by Mr. Gunn.

25th.—Grey Phalarope in a dyke quite in the town of Yarmouth (E. Saunders).

27th.— W.Goldcrests, Starlings, and Sky Larks passed 'The Cockle' light-vessel, going west; fifty Scoters going east (J.H. Johnson).

30th.— N.W. in the early morning, afterwards N. to N.E.

31st.— N.E.Mr. E. Ramm shot a very small bird, as recorded by Mr. Southwell (Zool. p. 8), which, from the exact