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and mice, which appear to be its principal food. (Hele, u. s., 

 Newton's Yarrell, i., 79). I have reason to believe that it 

 is found in the winter at Felsham, Thorpe Morieux, and 

 elsewhere. This is however, contrary to its usual habits ; 

 it is more commonly seen in summer and autumn. 



Sparbowhawk, Accipiter nisus (L.). 

 S. and W. Cat. 5 (Catalogued only). — Spald. List, xxxv. 



Districts all. Recorded as common at Yarmouth (Paget) ; Shotley 

 (Kerry) ; Oakley (Clarke) ; and Tostock (Tuck) ; as not uncommon at 

 Sudbury (King) ; Cockfleld (C. B. !) ; Saxham, Whepstead, and Ick- 

 worth (Creed) ; and Rattlesden (Col. Parker; ; as occasionally or rarely 

 met with at Lowestoft (Thirtle) ; Gazeley (Tearle) ; Aldeburgh (Hele); 

 and Bramford (Haward). Specimens recorded from various other 

 localities ; an unusually fine one shot at Helmingham, in 

 Lord Henniker's Collection (C B. !). A large number about Yarmouth 

 in Nov. 1881, mostly females, no mature males (G. Smith in litt). One 

 in white plumage killed at Culford in 1867, and another at Fornham 

 St. Genevieve in 1868 (Bilson in Journ. Sitff. Inst. 23, and Gunn in Z. 

 2nd S. 1420). A specimen with sub-rufous breast was taken at Wood- 

 bridge, and is in Mr. Hillen's possession (C. B. !). 



Nests recorded from Bacton (Hemswortb) ; Thorpe Morieux (C. B. !); 

 Polstead (Cooke) ; Elveden, Sapiston, and Fakenham (Newton). 



This bird is universal in the wooded districts of the 

 county, but is now not abundant in any of them. It is partly 

 an autumnal migrant. It commits great ravages upon game, 

 and poultry, and its numbers are consequently continually 

 being diminished. 



Goshawk, Astur palumlarius (L.). 

 Spald. List, xxxv. A fine adult male trapped in Suffolk, 

 March 1833 (from Yarrell). 



East Suffolk. 



1. Very rare about Yarmouth ; a fine specimen caught in 1833 

 (Paget, Y. 3) ; one alighted on the rigging of a ship brought to that 

 place about Nov. 1843 (W. P. Fisher, in Z. 491) ; a young bird taken 

 there in Mr. Gurney's Collection (C. B. !). An immature female 

 shot at Somerleyton, Jan. 1859, by Mr J. Gould ; now preserved at the 

 Hall (Ibis i. 205 ; Stev. in Z. 6443, C. B. !). 



2. A fine adult male shot by Mr. Spalding in a wood at Benacre, in 

 Jan. 1841 ; now in possession of Mr. E. Spalding of Middleton (Spald. 

 List xxxv. ; F. Spalding MS. ; and H. Stevenson in litt). One killed 



