(5 THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



Sudbury, a copy of which has been given to me by his 

 brother-in-law, Mr. Jonathan Grubb, of the same place.* I 

 have been able to add to this catalogue, though not to any- 

 great extent, by oral information derived from Mr. Edwin 

 Hill, Mr. D, Simmons, and Mr Eose, all of Sudbury. The 

 Sudbury Museum, the contents of which were sold in 1872 

 (see below), would doubtless have been available for further 

 additions, had the localities of the birds been recorded. 

 After many inquiries I have only been able to make out 

 that, though a great part of them were obtained about 

 Sudbury, the stations of a very few only of the specimens 

 are known, some of which are now in my possession. This 

 is the more to be regretted, as I am compelled to omit 

 several specimens of birds of considerable rarity, as the 

 Night Beron and an immature Little Bittern, both of 

 which may reasonably be suspected to have been obtained 

 in Suffolk. Some of the birds, as I was told by Mr. D. 

 Simmons, came "by way of Harwich,'' that is probably 

 from the Orwell ; among these very possibly were the 

 Sheldrake, the Lesser Tern, and the Great Northern Diver 

 (immature), all now in my possession. 



Mr. F. Spalding, of Hadleigh, has given me a checked 

 catalogue of all the birds recently observed by him about 

 Hadleigh. 



The list of those in and about Cockfield I drew up, 

 with the help of various friends whose names are recorded. 



(7.) The birds of Gazeley and its immediate neighbour- 

 hood have been carefully enumerated by the Rev. F. Tearle, 

 Vicar of Gazeley, who has supplied me with much additional 

 information, especially relative to the birds about New- 

 market, which he obtained from Mr. Howlett, taxidermist, 

 of that place. 



To this would certainly have been added a list from 

 Chedburgh, had it not been for the untimely death of the 



* It is simply signed K, and has no columns, and it comprises 138 birds, some 



date, but bears internal evidence of having in his own possession, and some observed 



been written between 1836 and 1842. by him but not obtained. 

 The tract is in three quarto pages, double 



