CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 39 



rare on the Western side of the county. Immature birds 

 are much more frequently met with than adults. The 

 Eingtail which used to be considered a distinct species, is 

 now known to be the adult female Hen Harrier. 



Montagu's Harrier, Circus cineraceus (Montagu). 

 Spald. List, xxxv. 



East Suffolk. 



1. A male bird shot near Yarmouth, June 24 1851 ; and an adult 

 female, a very dark variety, near Yarmouth, July 1855 ; (both in the Bury 

 Museum) ; a young and very dark female killed near the same place Sept. 

 1853, in the Norwich Museum ; an old male in Oct. 1862, in Capt. Longe's 

 possession (Stev. B. of N. i. 40, 41) ; and an adult male with back and 

 wings very dark May 13, 1868 (Stev. in Z. 2nd S. 1490). One killed 

 near Lowestoft by Mr. Thirtle of whom it was purchased in 1860 by 

 Rev. C. J. Lucas (Lucas in lift). 



2. A male bird shot by Mr. Spalding at Benacre in 1842 (Spald. 

 u. s.), now in my Collection (C. B.). Mr. T. M. Spalding had an old 

 male brought him which was shot at Blythburgh about 1865 (P. 

 Spalding MS.) Killed on Lord Huntingfield's estate, in his Collection 

 (Lord Huntingfield in lift). An old male in imperfect plumage, after 

 frequenting the Mere at Thorpe, was killed there May 14, 1868 (Hele, 

 Aid. 77). Aldeburgh (James MS). An immature bird killed on the 

 marshes at Sudbourn in 1860 (Hele, Aid. 76). 



3. One shot at Eyke (T. Carthew in litt.J. 



West Suffolk. 



7. Elveden, male, June 1844 (Cambridge Museum). A young bird 

 of the year obtained near Moulton by Mr. H. L. Palmer {Bury Free 

 Press, June 4 1881) ; Mr. Howlett, who preserved this specimen, 

 informs me that it was probably bred in Wicken Fen, Cambs., whence 

 two other nestlings came, into his hands (W. Howlett in lift.). A fine 

 male bird found on the road between Newmarket and Bury St. 

 Edmund's in June 1876 ; its wing was broken probably by the 

 telegraph wires, as no shot could be found (W. Howlett in Field of June 

 10, 1876). 



8. One at Hengrave (Bilson MS.). 



Formerly nested in Suffolk, but has now probably ceased to 

 do so (A. G. More in Ibis 1865, 14, Newton's Yarrell i. 

 140). 



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

 Districts.- -1, 2, 3, 7, 8. 

 Professor Newton says that Montagu's Harrier was at 

 one time the most common of the Harriers in the Eastern 



