THE BINDS OF SUFFOLK. 



standing. It would have been impossible to undertake 

 such a task single-handed so as to do anything like justice 

 to the subject, nor have I attempted to do so. But I have 

 collected all the local lists of birds that I could by any 

 means obtain from practical naturalists in various parts of 

 the county, and have besides availed myself of the few that 

 had been printed ; and these taken together may be said 

 to form the basis of the present undertaking. 



In order to show the distribution of the birds and their 

 comparative numbers in different parts of Suffolk, it was 

 obvious that the county must be divided into districts of 

 some kind. The political division of Suffolk into East and 

 "West has been retained, as it cuts the county roughly into 

 two halves, and also keeps the whole coast line in one of 

 them. Thus the sea birds are principally to be found in 

 East, and are only stragglers of greater or less frequency in 

 "West, Suffolk. Each of these regions has been sub-divided 

 into four districts, formed in every case of combinations of 

 two or more hundreds. For each of the eight bird-districts 

 I have used one or more local lists, printed or in MS., in 

 which the commonest as well as the rarest species are 

 included. These districts are, for East Suffolk, the hundreds* 

 of— 



(1.) Mutford and Lothingland (including Yarmouth), 

 Wangford ; 



(2.) Bly thing, Plomesgate; 

 (3.) "Wilford, Carlford, Loes, Colneis, Samford ; 

 (4.) Bosmere and Claydon (including Ipswich), Thred- 

 ling, Hoxne; 

 And for "West Suffolk, the hundreds of — 

 (5.) Hartismere, Stow ; 



(6.) Cosford, Babergh (including Sudbury) ; 

 (7.) Eisbridge, Lackford (including Thetford and 

 Brandon) ; 



* For the enumeration of the parishes in each hundred see White'i Suffblk^ii Ed. 1874. 



