CATALOGUE OF THK BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



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St. Edmund's, in May 1863, having a trap attached to its foot (T. H. 



Allis inZ. 8677). Shot at Livermere, by Fakes, the keeper (James 



MS.)- 



Months.—- May, June, July, August, October (and "Winter"). 



Districts.— I, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8. 

 Of occasional occurrence throughout the county ; more 

 especially near the coast. With rare exceptions, it feeds on 

 fish. 



Peregrine Falcon, Falco peregrinus, (Gmelin). 

 S. and W. Cat. 2. — Spald. List, xxxv. Frequently seen on 

 the coast, seldom obtained ; the adult rare. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Rather rare about Yarmouth (Paget, T. 3) ; a male and a female 

 from that place (Bury Museum); an immature female taken near 

 Yarmouth, Oct. 1847 (Gurney and Fisher in Z. 1966) ; another, immature 

 male, shot near the same place, Nov. 1871 (H. Stevenson and J. H. 

 Gurney, jun. in Z. 2nd S. 2980). About 1800 there was annually a nest 

 in the steeple of Corton Church (Lubbock, Fauna of Norf. (1 879), 29, 231), 

 where the nestlings were taken and trained to the chase (Stev. B. of N. i. 

 10). An adult male obtained at Somerleyton, Jan. 1881 (Freeman, v. v.). 

 One seen at Herringfleet in 1876 (Leathes in litt.). A beautiful speci- 

 men shot near Beccles (before 1815). (Hunt's Br. Ornith. i. 64, and 

 fig. 2, from this sp.). 



2. Several killed on Lord Huntingfield's estate ; in his Collection 

 (C. B. !). An adult from Easton Broad, in the Collection of Mr. 

 Spalding (Spald. List, xxxv. and Spald. Sale, Lot 355). Three obtained 

 near Aldeburgh, one immature female, killed Aug. 1864 ; another, fine 

 male, March 1865 ; and the third, adult female, Jan. 1868 ; one seen 

 there Nov. 1867 (Hele, Aid. 72). An immature female shot on the 

 Sudbourn Hall Estate ; in Sir R.Wallace's Collection (C. B. !). Several 

 from Saxmundham in the late Mr. Dix's Collection (Miss Dix in litt). 



3. Rendlesham Estate ; preserved in Lord Rendlesham's Col- 

 lection (C. B. !). Sand district across Sutton Heath, in Mr. 

 Phillips' Collection (W. P. T. Phillips in litt.). Woodbridge River 

 (H. Turner, v. v.). Two trapped at Higham by Mr. Hoy, of that place, 

 who also saw others there (S. and W., u.s.). Two killed on the River 

 Stour (Kerry MS.). 



4. One shot at Blakenham Magna, in the autumn of 1873, by Mr. 

 Peecock, in possession of Mr. Haward, of Bramford. (Mrs. Peecockm 

 litt, and Haward MS.). A male shot near Ipswich in 1876 (Podd, 

 v v.). 



West Suffolk. 



5. Several killed in Oakley Park ; Sir E. Kerrison has the bird in his 

 Collection (W. Clarke in litt. who killed some of them). A young 



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