CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



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districts. It is a bird especially of mountainous regions, 

 and has been met with in Suffolk more frequently than 

 might have been expected. (See Newton's Yarrell i. 287-8). 

 Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun. fin. litt.J observes that it is a very 

 typical spring and-autumn or double -passage bird. 



Fam. Sylviid^:. 

 Hedge Sparrow, Accentor modularis (L.). 

 S. and W. Cat. 21. Catalogued only. 

 Districts all. Very common all over the county. Nests. 



Redbreast, Erythaca rubecula (L,). 

 S. and W. Cat. 19. Catalogued only. 

 Districts all. Very common all over the county. Nests. 

 White eggs were obtained at Great Bealings in 1870. (E. 

 C. Moor in Z. 2nd S. 2306). 



Eedstart, Ruticilla phcenicura (L.). 



S. and W. Cat. 19. 



Districts all, a summer visitant; and recorded as common 

 in a few places, in others as . not uncommon, except about 

 Elveden, where it is very local if not rare (A. Newton), 

 rare at Gazeley (Tearle), and about Cockfield (C. B !). Almost 

 confined to the neighbourhood of old walls, ivy-grown ruins, 

 and hollow trees (Newton in Yarrell i. 339, and in litt.). 

 Breeds ; a nest was observed at Fritton, in the tunnel net 

 of a decoy hung upon a rail (J. H. Gurney, jun., in Z. 3rd S. 

 iv., 23). Sheppard and Whitear observe that its imitation 

 of the note of the Lesser White-throat is so exact as some- 

 times to deceive the nicest ear.* 



Black Redstart, Ruticilla tithys (Scopoli). 

 East Suffolk. 



1. A male seen and watched for several days at Fritton in Oct. 1879 

 by Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun. (J. H . Gurney, jun. in Z. 3rd S. iv. 23). 

 One or two specimens obtained by the late Mr. Thirtle at Lowestoft 

 (Stev. B.of N. i. 99). 



2. A female seen by Mr. Clark -Kennedy Nov. 15, 1868, in a garden 

 at Darsham, and a fine male shot by him on the 25th, by the river bank 



* Not confirmed by any subsequent observer, (Professor Newton v. v.). 



