CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 37 



Months. — April, June, July, August, September, October, 

 November, December, (?) 



Districts. — 1, 2, 3, 6, 8. 

 Has been occasionally met with in the greater part of 

 Suffolk. Very few examples recorded before 1840. Gene- 

 rally, if not always, immature. For the variations of the 

 plumage see Stev. B. of N. i., 32 ; Dresser, B. of Eur. vi., 

 n. 368, pp. 5, 6. 



Maesh Harrier, Circus ceruginosas (L.). 

 S. and W. Cat. 6. — Spald, List, xxxv. Scarce. 



East Suffolk. 



1 . Rather rare about Yarmouth (Paget, Y. 3). Mr. Spalding purchased 

 one there about 1850, an old male in very fine plumage ; a nest and 

 three young ones were taken in the neighbourhood in the summer of 

 1862 (Stev. B. of N. i. 36-37). A specimen with yellow head and 

 shoulders was shot near Yarmouth Sept. 12, 1875 (H. Stevenson in Z. 

 2nd S. 4774). A female shot at Bradwell May 1883 (Lowne in lift.). 

 One shot at Fritton in 1854 ; in possession of Rev. C. J. Lucas (Lucas 

 in litt.). 



2. One near South wold 1879 (Freeman v. v.). A male captured May 

 8th, 1874, near Yoxford (T. E. Gunn in Z. 2nd S. 4117). Westleton 

 (Hele MS.). A fine adult specimen shot on the Sudbourn Hall estate, 

 in Sir Richard Wallace's Collection (C. B !). 



3. One killed on the Rendlesham estate about 1878, in Lord 

 Rendlesham's Collection (C. B !). One was wounded in Oct. 1881 at 

 Rushmere and kept alive for some time by a gentleman in Ipswich 

 (Mash in litt. J. 



West Suffolk. 

 6. Perhaps the least uncommon of the larger hawks about Sudbury, 

 adults very rare (King, List,). One seen in a turnip field at Polstead in 

 autumn 1875 (Cooke v. v.). 



Nested near Yarmouth, probably in Norfolk, in 1862.* 

 Months. — May, September, October, and u Summer." 



Districts. — 1, 2, 3, 6. 

 Apparently the rarest of the Harriers in Suffolk and still 

 more scarce now than when Mr. Spalding wrote (1846). 

 In West Suffolk it is more especially rare 1 . It is in the 



* Mr. Stevenson informs me that it has no record. 7 Ind no certain record 



nested in that neighbourhood in Norfolk of its having iested in Suffolk, yet 



still more recently. He thinks that if it can hardly b ubted that it has done 



the bird has bred in Suffolk of late years so in the Fen districts, 

 Eaaton Broad is a likely place, but he haa 



