THE KIKI>S OF SUFFOLK. 



Rev. H. K. Creed, formerly Vicar of that, place, who 

 furnished me with a great deal of information respecting 

 rare birds obtained in many parts of Suffolk, and took the 

 greatest interest in this work. As it is, I possess only 

 scattered notices of the rarer birds of Chedburgh and the 

 neighbourhood. 



(8.) I have only one checked catalogue for this district, 

 but that a valuable one, by the Rev. Herbert James, Rector 

 of Livermere, including many birds shot by Miss Broke's 

 keeper. 



The Collections of which I have availed myself by 

 personal inspection, are the following : — 



(a.) Public Collections in the county : 



(1.) Ipswich. — Iu the Museum there is a considerable 

 Collection of British birds, many of which were probably 

 obtained in Suffolk, but very few indeed have been so 

 recorded. This Museum was established in 1847, mainly 

 through the exertions of the late Professor Henslow, the 

 present Curator being the well-known geologist, Dr. J. E. 

 Taylor. 



(2.) Bury St. Edmund's. — The Museum contains the 

 Collection formerly belonging to the late Rev. J. B. P. 

 Dennis, one of the Masters of the Grammar School, who 

 died in Oct., 1861. A large proportion of the specimens 

 have the date and place of capture affixed. The majority 

 are from Suffolk and the neighbourhood of Yarmouth.* A 

 MS. catalogue of the birds, compiled by the Rev. H. K. 

 Creed from Mr. Dennis' notes, is kept in the Museum, 

 where, along with this Collection, there are a few other 

 birds of no great importance. 



(3. ) Sudbury. — This Collection has been already alluded to. 

 The Museum was opened in the beginning of 1842, under 

 the presidency of Mr.W. D. King ; some account of it by Mr. 

 T. B. Hall, may be seen in the Zoologist, i., 341-343. It 



* For a notice of Mr. Dennis and his folk where this Collection is taken account 

 scientific labours, more especially on of (vol. i., pp. 28 and 29.) 

 osteology, see Stevenson's Birds of Nor- 



