CATALOGUE OF THE BIKDS OF SUFFOLK. 



Okder I., Eaptores. 

 *Golden Eagle, Aquila chrysaetus (L.). 



Sbeppard and Whitear (Cat. 4) refer to Pennant's British 

 Zoology, edit. 1812, for an account of a bird of this species, 

 killed in Suffolk ; see below. 



East Suffolk. 



1. One shot at Yarmouth in 1783, " the extent of which was reported 

 to be twelve feet" (Latham in Pennant, Br. Z. i. 201. Ed. 1812). f 

 One shot on Breydon Water, Jan. 1876, and two others seen there 

 during the winter (Creed MS. from Mr. Everitt). Colonel Leathes 

 reports one to have been shot at Herring-fleet in his youth, and another 

 by the late Captain Hudson, R N., of Flixton, about 1870. He thinks 

 he saw one himself at Herring-fleet in the early part of 1876. (Leathes 

 in lift). 



2. A male shot in Suffolk in the winter of 1810 by a servant of Sir 

 T. Gooch, Bart. ; a larger bird, probably the female, observed at the same 

 time near Blythburgh for several evenings, but it escaped its pursuers 

 (Pennant u. s. 202 ; addition by the Editor). 



4. A beautiful specimen of a young Golden Eagle, taken near Wood- 

 bridge, about Dec. 1876. (C. Moor in Z. 3rd. S. i. 25). 



Month. — December. 



Districts. — 1, 2, 4. 



A very doubtful Suffolk bird ; the young of the White- 

 tailed Eagle having been probably taken for it. But as it has 

 occurred once in Norfolk (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd S. p. 

 1863 ; Yarrell's Brit. Birds by Newton, i. 14), it is not 

 impossible that it may have been seen in Suffolk. Col. 

 Leathes thought that he saw both species at Herringfleet. 



f Her© and in every ease, where verification is impossible, the reference is given for 

 what it is -worth on the authority cited. 



