42 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



(Clarke MS.) ; as not common about Sudbury (King, List) ; Bramford 

 (Haward MS.), Cockfield (Edgar, whohasapair, C.B. !), and Gazeley (Tearle 

 MS.). Specimens recorded from various other places. Has bred near 

 Yarmouth (Paget, Y. 4) • and Westleton (F. Spalding MS.) ; nested 

 among rough grass on Mr. Everitt's estate at North Cove in 1875 (Everitt 

 MS.) ; and on N acton Heath in 1882 (Podd v.v.) ; two nestlings 

 taken early in August 1854 at Elveden on a heath (A. Newton in Stev. 

 B. of N. i. 51), one of these is in the Cambridge Museum : three downy 

 nestlings, said to have been taken at Hardwick, near Bury St. Edmund's, 

 sent to Mr. Hills of Sudbury in 1876 or 1877 ; two of them lived a 

 long while (Hills in litt.). One if not two pairs nested in Tuddenham 

 Fen in I88i ; one of the young birds was found at some yards distant 

 from the nest near to a Snipe (W. T. Angove in Z., 3rd S. vi. 232). 



Sheppard and Whitear observe that it arrives in September 

 and remains till the spring. It appears, sometimes in great 

 numbers, about the same time as the Woodcock, hence its 

 name of the Woodcock Owl (Paget u.s,). Some few however 

 stay behind to breed, and one is recorded as shot July 29, 1872 

 at Aldebnrgh (J. G. Tuck in Z. 2nd S. 3306). Found on 

 open fields and heaths throughout the county, but atthesame 

 time it can scarcely be called a common bird. It was 

 unusually abundant in the neighbourhood of Sudbury in 

 1881. 



Order II. Insessores. 



Fam. Laniid^:. 



Great Grey Shrike, Lanius excubitor, L. 



S. and W. Cat. 13. Migrations uncertain ; killed in 

 Suffolk in January, April, May, and September. — Spald. 

 List xxxvi. Kare ; three killed in 1839, and two in 1844. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Yarmouth, rarely seen (Paget, Y. 4) ; it occurred there in Oct. 1868 

 (J. H. Gurney in Z. 2354). One was met with at Gorleston in Oct. 1880 

 (H. Stevenson in Z. 3rd S. vi., 373). Two were seen by Hurr at Belton 

 in Sept. 1881 (Hurr v.v.). Two were killed at Barsham by Mr. Mean 

 (F. Spalding in litt. ; now in my Collection, C.B). Lowestoft, Beccles, 

 Bungay (Freeman v. v.) ; a fine male was shot at Oulton Wood, Nov. 8, 

 1864 (Gunn in Z. 9455). 



2. Blythburgh (W. P. T. Phillips' Collection). Killed on Lord Hunting- 

 field's estate (Lord Huntingfield in litt.). One killed by Mr. S. A. Woods 

 in the act of striking a Goldfinch at Westleton (F. Spalding MS.). 



