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Rh which one at least was an adult male;† and the next day, the wind being again west, a young one was shot (Pashley).

13th.— Pectoral Sandpiper in Suffolk (Zool. 1900, p. 531); wind N.E., but with us it was S.E., and the day before N.

18th.—W. Two more Bluethroats, a Pied Flycatcher, and a Blackcap on the shore (Pashley); the wind on 16th and 17th was S.W.

1st.—Pair of Pintail at Yarmouth, the duck unusually rufous (Patterson). A Solitary Snipe† sent to Mr. Cole; wind yesterday S.W.

2nd.—W.S.W. A Buzzard† circling over our boathouse, or some large bird of prey like one.

3rd.—N.N.W. Mr. Gunn saw on the coast about ten Richardson's Skuas, and a good many immature Gannets, Red-throated Divers and Razorbills, one Guillemot, and one Sandwich Tern; and Mr. Pashley reports two Pomatorhine Skuas, a Little Stint, and a Grey Phalarope about this time.

16th.—Scoter shot on Rockland Broad (R. Gurney).

21st.—[N.E. at Keswick.] Nine or ten Little Gulls, mingled with large numbers of Common and Black-headed Gulls, observed for some time off the harbour pier-head at Lowestoft by Messrs. T. Southwell and H. Bunn, but only one came into the harbour. Mr. Southwell considered their presence due to the high north wind, which was force five, with frequent rainstorms. From ten o'clock until two he also took notice of a constant stream of Rooks coming in from the sea in parties of from two to a hundred, and this movement was continued on the 22nd, when the wind was N.N.W.; but the Rooks were then in much smaller numbers. It would appear that this movement of Corvidæ had a broad front, extending as far as Yorkshire, for on the 20th unprecedented numbers of them had been seen at Humber Mouth, and smaller detachments on the 21st, by Mr. Caton Haigh. At the same time that Lowestoft Harbour was full of Gulls, Mr. Patterson reports Breydon Broad as being also crowded with them, but the Little Gulls were not detected there.

26th.— S.S.W. A Little Owl shot at Oulton (W. Lowne); perhaps not a migrant, as so many have been turned out in Kent (cf. Meade Waldo, Zool. 1900, p. 556) and Buckinghamshire;