1 4 THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



posthumous edition of 1812 that an account is given 

 of certain Golden Eagles, said to have been Killed in 

 Suffolk. Bewick's British Birds added scarcely anything to 

 Suffolk ornithology ; the first volume containing the land 

 birds appeared at Newcastle in 1797; the second volume, 

 after some delay, came out in 1804.* In this first edition 

 Suffolk is mentioned in connection with the Eook (i., 64), 

 and the Sandwich Tern (ii., 205J, beside that the Spoonbill 

 is recorded from Yarmouth (ii., 27.) Not one of these 

 notices is original, the first being taken from Wallis' History 

 of Northumberland, the second from Latham's Synopsis of 

 Birds, and the third from Pennant's British Zoology. The 

 one new piece of information is the record of the Little 

 Bustard taken alive on the edge of Newmarket Heath, the 

 greater part of which is in Suffolk. The late SirW.Trevelyan 

 sent the bird to Bewick, who took his figure from it. This 

 work, deservedly popular on account of the extraordinary 

 beauty of the woodcuts, went through at least seven 

 editions before 1848, and in 1882, a memorial edition of all 

 his principal works, including his British Birds, has been 

 announced. The later editions have but little additional 

 information relating specially to Suffolk birds. f The 

 general conclusion at which we arrive is that little had been 

 done for the avifauna of Suffolk before the nineteenth 

 century. In the beginning of this century Montagu's 

 Ornithological Dictionary was published in 1802 (London, 

 8vo.), and a supplement in one volume, was added in 1813. 

 The only original remark relating to any Suffolk bird occurs 

 under the Rough-legged Falcon, where a peculiar variety is 

 described as shot in this county. The notices of the Spoon- 

 bill, the Little Bustard, and the Guernsey Partridge are 



* Professor Newton has pointed out f The Edition of 1832 mentions as 

 to me that there were two issues of the Suffolk birds the Red-legged Partridge 

 first volume in the same year. Under the and the Squacco Heron, which were ab- 

 Keed Bunting the Latin name is printed sent from the editions of 1797 and 1809. 

 Schceniclus ; in the second issue it stands For the different editions of Bewick see 

 Sahceniclus, and there are many similar Agassiz' Bibl. Zool. i, 280, and Lowndes' 

 variations. The wood cuts of the Mag- Bibl. Man, but neither give them corn- 

 pie differ in the two issues. pletely. 



