CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 47 



8. One seen in the Eectory garden at Tostock April 30, 1883 (A. 

 Foster-Melliar in litt.). A line male ohot by Mr. Duncan Parker outside 

 a plantation at (Jlopton Hail, May lu, 18S3 (Parker in litt. C. B. !). 



Said to have nested once. 



Months. — April, May, June, September. 



Districts. — All. 

 Has been found very occasionally in different parts of 

 the county, principally near the coast. Never yet observed 

 to be abundant except at the time of the immigration noticed 

 at Gunton in 18bb. 



Fam. Orioum:. 



Golden Oeiole, Oriolus galbula, L. 



5. and "W. Cat. 12. — Spald. List, xxxvi. Rare. 



East Suffolk. 



1. A female killed near Yarmouth Aug. 1, 1850, and another, supposed 

 to be the male, seen at the same time (Stev. B. of N. i. 87, and J. H. 

 Gurney in Z. 2914). A male killed at Burgh Castle, May 1883 (W. Lowne 

 in litt.). Several have been seen at Herring-fleet. (Leathes in litt.). A 

 female killed at Barsham Hall by Mr. Spalding in 1818 (Spald.Z^, u.s.) ; 

 another female killed near Bungay in July 1S51 (J. H. Gurney mZ. 3233). 



2. Two adult females killed at Chediston in April and May 1866 (H. 

 Stevenson in Z. 2nd S. 268, and T. E. Gunn, 308). A male bird killed on 

 Lord Hunting-field's estate, at Scott's Hall near Dunwich in 1852 ; young 

 birds were seen but not killed (Lord Huntingfield in litt. C. B. !). Two 

 males and a female killed (afew years before l«27)at Saxmundham ( S. and 

 W.ic.s. See also Pennant, Brit Z. i. 304(Note)Ed. l8i2,Kimt, Brit. Orn. 

 ii. 74, Norw.lal 5, and Graves, Brit. Orn. iii.,Lond.,l»21). One, probably 

 a male, seen by Mr. Clark-Kennedy near Parham in May 1869 (Clark- 

 Kennedy in Z. 2nd S. 1861). Two old and three young birds seen by a 

 farmer on a hedge at Sudbourn on the road leading to Orford (F. 

 Spalding MS.). 



3. A female shot at Campsey Ash by J. Sheppard, Esq. (S. and W. 

 u. s.). A hen bird shot in a plantation a few miles from Woodbridge 

 early in May 1869 (Clark-Kennedy in Z. 2nd S. 1861). A female shot 

 by a gamekeeper at Martlesham in June 1873 ; a male seen at the 

 same time (Haward MS.). Hollesley (Hillen v.v., who has it. C. B. !). 



4. A male seen for some weeks in Newton Wood, Creeting, in 1880 

 (H. Ling wood in litt.). 



West Suffolk. 



6. A fine male observed by Mr. T. C. Ellis, while driving from Sudbury 

 to Newton in May 1879 (T. E. Gunn in Z. 3rd S. hi. 341). 



