28 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OP SUFFOLK. 



■which appeared to have just left the nest, seen byMr.Tearle onNewmarket 

 Heath, in Aug. 1869; it had probably been reared on one of the fir 

 trees close bv (Tearle MS.). One trapped on the warren, near New- 

 market (W. Howlett, in Z. 2nd S. 3830). 

 8. Rattlesden (Col. Parker, v.v.). 



Breeds in several Districts. 

 Months. — January, February, June, July, August, 

 December. 



Districts. — All. 

 Now scattered, rather than distributed, over the whole 

 county ; perhaps less rare formerly. This summer migrant 

 (see Harting's Handbook, p. 4, also his remarks in Z., 3rd 

 8. i. 179, and Spald. List, u. s), has been occasionally 

 observed in Suffolk in the winter months.* 



East Suffolk. 



Merlin, Falco cesalon (Gmelin). 



S. and W. Cat. 2 (Catalogued only), — Spald. List, xxxv. 

 Barely met with adult. 



1. Rarely met with about Yarmouth (Paget, Y. 3) ; one, imma- 

 ture, from Yarmouth in 1853 (Bury Museum) ; a female obtained 

 in the neighbourhood, Nov. 1881 (G. Smith in lift). Somerleyton, 

 (Freeman v.v). Lowestoft, occasionally (Thirtle MS.). 



2. Killed on Lord Huntingfield's estate ; in his Collection (Lord 

 Hunting-field in lift, C. B. !). Theberton, 1829 (Acton, in Loudon's 

 May N. II. iv. (1831), 163). Occasionally observed at Aldoburgb ; 

 one killed in Aug. 1869, another (female) in 1871, another in 1873 

 (Hele, AM. 74, and MS., and Tuck sp.). 



3. Killed on the Rendlesdiam estate ; preserved in Lord Rendlesham's 

 Collection (C.B. !). Woodbridge District, in possession of Mr. Hillen 

 (W. H. M. Carthew MS) ; one seen in May, and several killed near that 

 place, in spring, 1868 (Clark-Kennedy in Z. 2nd S. 1695) ; one male and 

 two females shot near the river in Dec. 1876 (C. Moor in Z. 3rd S. 

 i. 25) ; another from the Woodbridge district, Nov. 1881 (Asten v.v ,and 

 C. B. !); two other specimens obtained there (in the Ipswich Museum). 

 A male shot at Rushmere in 1869 (H. Turner, who has it, in lilt). 



West Suffolk. 



5. Oaklev, occasionally ; in Sir E. Kerrison's Collection (Clarke 

 MS.). 



6. Kettlebaston, about 1856 (W. M. White, v.v.). Once met with 



* Unless indeed, as has been suggested to me, some other species can have been 

 mistaken for this. 



