THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 13 



coasts in Suffolk . . . in winter time " (p. 322), where 

 the Latin edition only has, l ' sunt in Anglice maritimis 

 prccsertim orientalibus non infrequentes " (p. 241). Of the Stone 

 Curlew he records that it is " found about Thetford, in 

 Norfolk, as Sir T. Browne informed us " (p. 306). Before 

 these allusions (for Thetford is partly in Suffolk), I have 

 not observed any references to birds of this county. Eay's 

 own work on systematic ornithology appeared in 1713 (Lon- 

 don, 8vo),and, like that of Willughby, was written in Latin, 

 bearing for title, Joannis Raii Synopsis Methodica Avium. 

 He records two birds from Suffolk, one of which he had 

 himself observed. Speaking of the Pintail, under the name 

 of the Sea Pheasant or Cracker, he says, " In maritimis circa 

 Aldburgh el Orford observavimns . Habetur et alibi inAnglia" 

 (p. 147). Of the Stone Curlew he only repeats what he had 

 already said '' circa Thctfordiam invenitur " (p. 108). Up to 

 this time no zoological work had dealt with the birds of 

 Great Britain, excluding those of other countries.* The first 

 edition of Pennant's British Zoology came out in 1766 (Lond., 

 imp. fob), and was published under the " inspection'' of the 

 Cymmrodorion Society. It went through five other editions, 

 the last of which appeared in 1812 in four volumes (8vo) , 

 fourteen years after the author's death. f This was the stan- 

 dard work on British birds up to the close of the eighteenth 

 century. It refers but very seldom to Suffolk birds. Sir 

 Thomas Cullum furnishes him with the autumnal and 

 vernal appearances of the Woodcock on the coast of 

 Suffolk, and he also states (in a later edition) that a 

 flock of Spoonbills migrated into the marshes near 

 Yarmouth in April 1774. It is only in the last and 



* Christopher Merritt had indeed pub- pages, pp. 170- 184, and he never refers to 



lished, in 1667, a work entitled " Pinax Suffolk except once, when saying that the 



lierum naturalium Britannicarum, con- Bustard is found on Newmarket Heath. 



tinens Vegetabilia, Animalia et Fossilia The Heath is mostly in Suffolk. 



in hdc Insula reperta. Lond : 1667 f Mr. E. T. Bennet (in his edition of 



(8vo., in one volume, and again, in 1677 White's Selhorne, 1837, 113 note) tells U3 



and 1704). The slight character of this that the editor was Mr. Hanmer. He 



work makes it scarcely worth taking into was told this, as Professor Newton informs 



account in this place. The notices of the me, by the late Mr. J. E. Gray. 

 British birds occupy only fourteen small 



