THB BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 19 



seasons ; some of these come here for the summer, others 

 for the winter, while others again perform a double migra- 

 tion, and pass through the country twice a year, in spring 

 and in autumn; (3) Annual Visitants comprising those 

 birds which occur in some part of the country nearly 

 every year, but in limited numbers and at uncertain inter- 

 vals. He counts in round numbers 130 Eesidents, 100 

 Periodical Migrants and 30 Annual Visitants, the remainder 

 being 140 Accidental Visitants, the entire list of British, 

 birds amounting to 400 in number.* 



For the sake of brevity I use the following signs. When 

 I refer to a particular specimen which I have myself seen of 

 any bird, a note of admirationf is sometimes J placed after my 

 initials thus : (C. B. !). When the letters v.v. follow the 

 name of my informant they indicate that the information 

 was given viva voce ; the words in Htt. imply that the 

 communication has been made in a letter to myself or, 

 in some few cages, in one seen by myself, but addressed 

 to another person§ ; when MS. is added it is intended to 

 signify that the bird appears in a MS. list or checked 

 catalogue made by the person mentioned ; whereas List 

 always indicates a printed list such as those of Spalding 

 and of King. As it is one object in the following pages to 

 supply an historical summary of what has been previously 

 recorded by writers on Suffolk ornithology, I have not felt 

 myself entitled to pass over any bird which I know to have 

 been published as belonging to Suffolk, although I may 

 have seen reason to suspect the correctness of the record, or 

 even to feel sure that it is incorrect. When an asterisk (*) is 



*This enumeration contains five more Museums at Cambridge, Bury St. Ed- 

 Accidental Visitants than the Handbook ; mund's, &c, nor of tbose of the late 

 they have been added by Mr. Halting Mr. Hoy, the late Mr. Newcome, and 

 himself in his Introduction to the Birds of several others which I have seen, as 

 Cornivall, by Rodd p. liii. (Lond. 1880). catalogues have either been made of these 



■fThis notation was introduced by Do Collections or the birds have been sepa- 



Candolle into botanical terminology, only rately labelled. 



he uses it to indicate that he has seen an §Tbese are the letters of Col. Leathes 



authentic specimen of the plant from the to Dr. Crowfoot, of Dr. Crowfoot to Mr. 



author after whoso name it is placed- Hawkins, and a few letters of Mr. G. 



Jit is not used in the case of specimens Smith's which were written to Mr, J. 



quoted from the Collections in the H. Gurney, jun. 



