4.--Four specimens of Pallas's sand grouse--one male and three
females--were shot at Waxham, by the Rev. Mr. Wheeler and Mr. Gibbs. On
the 8th a fine male specimen was shot on Yarmouth Denes, near the old
battery; and on the 9th and 10th a flock of about forty of the birds
appeared upon Horsey beach. A pair was killed on Titchwell beach on the
10th, and another pair at about the same date in the adjoining parish of
Brancaster. Altogether twenty-six specimens of these rare visitants from
the Kirghis steppes of Tartary were procured in the county, and all were
found either basking in the sands or feeding in grass fields close to the
sea shore.
13.--At the sale of the Rev. John Gilbert's property, by Messrs. Spelman,
at the Norfolk Hotel, Norwich, a farm of forty acres realised 2,600, and
the Church Farm, of forty-nine acres, at Heckingham, was sold for 2,000.
17.--The show of the Norfolk Agricultural Association took place at
Yarmouth, and was the most successful of the exhibitions yet held.
22.--The 5th Royal Irish Lancers marched from the Cavalry Barracks,
Norwich, for Aldershot, and a few weeks later sailed for India.