38 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OP SUFFOLK. 



habit of beating rush marshes and low lands in search of 

 birds and reptiles. (Spald. u. s.). 



Hen Harrier, Circus cyaneus (L.) . 



5. and W. Oat. 7. — Spald. List, xxxv. Rare in its adult 

 plumage. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Not uncommon about Yarmouth (Paget, Y. 3) ; an immature 

 male and a female taken near that place in 1850 (Bury Museum). A 

 mature female shot at Bel ton, Dec. 1881 (G. Smith in l/'tt.J. One shot 

 at Herringfleet in the beginning of 1876 (Leathes in lift.). 



2. Two adult females killed at Benacre in 1844 ; one of them was 

 killed by Mr. T. M. Spalding in Nov., and is now in my Collection (C. B.). 

 (Spald. u. s., and Sale, Lots 294, 373 ; F. Spalding, MS.). Blythburgh 

 (Spald. Sale, Lot 388J. Mr. T. M. Spalding saw an old ash-coloured 

 specimen at Dunwich in Nov. 1844. (F. Spalding MS.). Far from un- 

 common about Aldeburgh, especially near Thorpe ; an immature female 

 obtained there in the summer of 1869 ; a fine female in Jan. 187 1 ; and an 

 immature male Dec. 23 1872 ; a Ringtail killed at Blackheath near 

 Hazlewood in 1859 (Hele, AM. 76 and MS. ; James MS.)- A specimen 

 in dark plumage shot on the Sudbourn Hall estate is in Sir R. Wallace's 

 Collection (C. B. !) ; one seen lately there by Lord Rendlesham (Lord 

 Rendlesham v. v). 



3. Rendlesham estate, in the Collection of Lord Rendlesham, who does 

 not consider it very rare in the neighbourhood (C. B. !). A Ringtail from 

 the Woodbridge district. (Carthew MS.). A female shot at Bawdsey 

 at the mouth of the Deben in winter 1868 ; and a young bird in 

 female plumage at Walton on the marshes near the Deben in Nov. 1877. 

 One obtained alive on Rushmere Heath, Jan. 1881. (H. Turner in 

 litt, who has all three). 



West Suffolk. 



6. One shot near Chadacre Hall and preserved there (C. B. !). 



7. An adult female shot near Wangford Oct, 1 0, 1869 (T. E. Gunn in Z. 

 2nd S. 1980). One from Elveden in 1844 ; another in 1850 (Cambridge 

 Museum). A male seen by Mr. Tearle flying over Cavenham Heath 

 April 27, 1870, beating the ground with the regularity of a pointer ; 

 two more seen by him at the same place in April 1872, and a nest found 

 May 15, 1871, containing three broken eggs, no bird seen. Two shot 

 at Heigham (Howlett) in 1871 (Tearle MS.). 



Formerly nested; but has now perhaps ceased to do so (see 

 Newton's Yarrell i. 134, from A. G. More). 

 Months.— January, April, October, November, December. 

 Districts. — 1, 2, 3, G, 7. 



!Not very uncommon in some parts of East Suffolk * more 



