CATALOGUE OF THB BIRDS OF SUFFOLK 3l 



at Aldeburgh ; in possession of Col. Thellusson (Hele, Aid. 76) ; and 

 another (immature female) at the same place (Bury Museum). 



3. Two young birds killed on the Rendlesham estate ; in Lord 

 Rendlesham' s Collection (C B. !) ; one shot at Rendlesham in Dec. 

 1868. Another shot at Butley about the same time (Clark-Kennedy in 

 Z. 2nd S. 1700) ; perhaps the two belonging to Lord Rendlesham. 

 One procured at Trimley about Dec. 1868 ( Clark-Kennedy u. s J. 



West Suffolk. 



5. Fine male in immature plumage shot at Westhorpe Nov. 1849, 

 and brought in the flesh to Dr. Bree, who has it (C. R. Bree in Z. 2nd 

 S. 1700, and in ////.). Seen at Bacton Jan. 1881 (Hemsworth MS.). 



6. An adult male caught by Sir J. Rowley's gamekeeper at Stoke-by- 

 Nayland in the winter of 1832-33, in a trap baited with a red-legged 

 partridge (J. D. Hoy, in Loudon's Mag. N. H. vii. (1834), 53). 



8. One at Barrow in 1866, found with a small trap on its foot ; ano- 

 ther at Saxham in 1874 (Bilson in Journ. Sitff. Inst., 23, and MS.). 



Months. —January, March, November, December. 



Districts. — 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8. 



Very rare in Suffolk, but has been met with in most parts 

 of the county, generally immature. 



Kite, Milvus ictinus, Savigny. 



S. and W. Cat. 6 (Catalogued only). — Spald. List, xxxv. 

 Formerly plentiful in wooded districts, but now rarely 

 seen. 



Fast Suffolk. 



! . Very rare about Yarmouth (Paget, Y. 3). A bird apparently of 

 this species seen on the coast near Lowestoft, Dec. 1865 ; a kite killed 

 later in the month at Martham in Norfolk is supposed to have been the 

 same bird (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd S. 86). 



2. One killed at Benacre about 1844, and another also shot there was 

 seen by Mr. T. M, Spalding in a decayed state, nailed up along with 

 vermin (F. Spalding MS.) ; two killed at the same place, in possession 

 of the Rev. J. Farr, one of them obtained about 1856 (Stev. B. of N. i. 

 27, Note). One picked up dead on the shore somewhere in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Aldeburgh Sept. 1881 (J. H. Gurney, jun., in litt. from 

 T. E. Gunn). 



3. One killed at Rendlesham before 1860, in Lord Rendlesham's Col- 

 lection (C. B. !). One killed on Rushmere Heath about 1860 ; in pos- 

 session of Mr. Hillen of Woodbridge (Hele, Aid. 71; W. H. M. Carthew 

 MS.). 



