CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 45 



in many localities ; about Thetford it has long been rare 

 (Salmon in Loudon's Mag. N. ZT.ix. (1836) 528; A. Newton 

 in litt.). It appears however mostly in small numbers.* A 

 pure white variety was shot at Belstead by Lord Gwydyr's 

 keeper ; dried by Mr. Biddell(Mash in litt.). A female in 

 male plumage was shot at Mellisby Mr. Creed (Bury Museum). 

 Nests. Mr. Duncan Parker has seen shrews, field mice, 

 chaffinches, linnets, and yellow-hammers, and also beetles 

 which this bird has impaled at Woolpit. It occasionally 

 attacks very young birds of species much larger than itself. 



Woodchat, Lanius rutilus, Latham. 



Spald. List, xxxvi. Very rare. — Gould, Birds of Great 

 Britain, vol. ii., mentions a pair, said to have been killed in 

 Suffolk, in the Collection of the late T. Henson. 



East Suffolk. 



1. A male bird killed April 29, 1859, at Yarmouth, now in Mr. Gurney's 

 Collection (Stev. B. of N. i. 64, and in Z. 6602. C. B. !). A specimen 

 shot at Bradwell in April 1829 by Mr. Adams, who had it (Paget, F. 4; 

 Lombe says May 1829 in his MS. Notes in Bewick, and in Mont. Diet). 

 An adult male killed at Lound, May 2, 1859 (Stev. u. s.). A fine old 

 male killed at Henham, May 10, 1860, by Mr. T. M. Spalding (Stev. B. 

 of N. u. s. ; now in Mr. Gurney's Collection, C. B. !). 



Months. — April, May. 



District. — 1. 



This bird, rare in all parts of Great Britain, is supposed 

 above to have been killed six times in Suffolk. Two of these 

 instances however are doubtful, and the Yarmouth specimen 

 may have been shot in Norfolk, so that three only are 

 certainly from Suffolk. 



FAM. MlJSCICAPIDiE. 



Spotted Flycatcher, Muscicapa grisola, L. 

 S. and W. Cat. 14, who mention that it is known in 



* It was abundant at Shimpling in 1875 the neighbouring villages, about two or 

 (Mrs. Drake-, v. v.) ; in the adjoining three pair are seen every year, so far as I 

 parish of Cockfield, and perhaps in most of have observed or heard. 



