CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 57 



Districts. — All. 



Apparently not very common, except on the banks of 

 certain rivers, but probably often overlooked or confused 

 with the Sedge Warbler. For a description of its 

 beautiful nest supported between reeds, see Stev. B. of N. 

 i., 115-16 ; and Newton's Yarrell i. 371 and fig. 



Nightingale, Luscinia philomela (Bonaparte). 



S. and W. Cat. 18. Catalogued only. 



Districts all, and recorded as common everywhere, except 

 at Gunton (Paget) and Holbrook (Kerry) where it is said to 

 be only occasionally heard. Nests. One was heard at 

 Eedgrave July 22, 1873, the thermometer being 82 deg. in 

 the shade (Foster-Melliar MS.). Another was taken at 

 BuresNov. 12, 1879; much the latest that ever came under 

 Mr. Hills' notice (Hills in litt.). About 1877 there were a 

 good many nightingales at Badwell Ash in the grounds of 

 G. Payne, Esq., when two of them killed themselves 

 accidentally by flying against a plate-glass window. Since 

 then nightingales have not been seen or heard there (Henry 

 A. Swann in litt.). 



Blackcap, Sylvia alricapilla (L). 



S. and W. Cat 18. 



Districts, all. Eecorded as common at Yarmouth (Paget), 

 Bealings (Moor), Oakley (Clarke), Sudbury (King), 

 Eougham (Parish), and Eattlesden (Col. Pat ker) ; as not 

 uncommon at Needham Market (Lingwood in Naturalist 

 for 1853), and Cockfield (C. B.). Eecorded from various 

 other places. Nests have been found atWestleton (Spalding), 

 Cockfield (C. B.), Elveden (Newton), and Polstead (Cooke), 

 and doubtless in many other places. This summer migrant 

 appears to be general throughout the county, but not 

 everywhere equally abundant. Nests. Sheppard and 

 Whitear remark that it may with propriety be called 



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