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West Suffolk, 



5. Brome, rare ; in Sir E. Kerrison's Collection (Clarke MS.). 



6. Has become rare about Sudbury ; one seen by Mr King in Friar's 

 meadow (King, List) ; another mentioned to Mr. Hills as having 

 been lately (1880) seen flying over Sudbury (Hills v. v.). The bird used 

 to be not uncommon many years ago about Stoke-by-Nayland, where it 

 was called the Puttock. Two specimens in the Hoy Collection are con- 

 sidered to be from the neighbourhood (Mrs. Lescher, v. v.). Near Bures 

 also it was not uncommon about fifty years ago, and bred in a wood ; it 

 is now never seen there (A. Han bury in lilt). 



7. Sometimes occurs about Thetford ; one killed on the Suffolk side 

 of the warren in 1857 ; this is probably the specimen in the Bury 

 Museum (Lubbock, Fauna of Norfolk, 26, and Stev. B. of N. i. 27). 

 Formerly at Elveden, where Col. Thornton (who died in 1823) pursued 

 it with hawks (Lubbock, Fauna of Norfolk, Ed. 1879; Appendix by 

 Newton 227-228). Formerly plentiful on the open warren of the N.W. 

 district (A. Newton, in lilt). 



8. Two at Ickworth taken the same day about 1834 (Bilson in Journ. 

 Stiff. Inst. 23 and MS.). Seen about 1840 pursuing a French partridge 

 at Rattlesden (Col. Parker v. v.). 



Formerly bred. 



Months. — September, December. 



Districts.— I, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8. 



This bird, has now become so rare as to be hardly ever 

 seen in the county. Scarcely any specimens have been 

 obtained in the last five and twenty years. When Montagu 

 wrote fSuppl. Ornith. Diet, s.v, 1813), the Kite was com- 

 mon in the Eastern parts (of England), rare in the North, 

 more rare in the West. 



Common Buzzard, Buteo vulgaris. Leach. 

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

 This bird is now scarce. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Not uncommon about Yarmouth (Paget, Y. 3) ; several near 

 that place between Oct. 1858 and Jan. 1859 (Lubbock, Fauna 

 of Norf. 26, Note) ; a migration at Yarmouth Sept. 1881, one 

 caught alive in the town (J. H. Gurney, jun., in Z. 3rd S. 

 v. 486-7). One at Fritton and another at Browston near Belton 

 Sept. 1881 (G. Smith in lilt). Not rare near Lowestoft (Freeman 

 v.v.). A pair seen in Carlton Colville marshes by Mr. Creed in 1855 

 (Creed MS.). Two seen near Worlingham ; and one, an immature 



