CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 65 



possession of Mr. Creed (Creed MS.) ; another shot there in Aug. 1879 

 (Freeman v.v. C. B. !). One seen on the Waveney near Beccles many 

 years ago by Mr. W. M. Crowfoot (W. M. Crowfoot in Hit.). 



2. Nestlings seen among reeds by Benacre Broad about 1848 by Mr. 

 F. Spalding (F. Spalding MS.). Easton Broad (Spalding's Sale, Lot 

 355). Formerly nested at Dunwich (Lord Huntingfield in ML). Common 

 in the marshes between Kessingland and Beccles about 1830 ; getting 

 scarce about 1850, when some were shot by Mr. E. Crowfoot (W. M. 

 Crowfoot in Hit, 1883). Several observed on the reed land at Leiston, 

 Dec. 19, 1872, and subsequently more than once ; three flocks, containing 

 frorn seven to nine birds each, seen there Nov. 13, 1873 (Rope in Z. 

 2nd S. 3607 and 3866). 



3. Shottisham Creek, in possession of Mi'. Hillen ; this bird used 

 formerly to visit that neighbourhood frecmently (W. H. M. Carthew 

 MS.). Reed land near Ramsholt and Bawdsey (in Mr. W. P. T. Phillips' 

 Collection). 



West Suffolk. 



6. A pair believed to have been seen in a bed of reeds in the Stour in 

 or about 1868 near Brundon Hall, Sudbury (Grubb v.v.). Seen on the 

 Stour at Sudbury by Mr. Hills ; bred there in April, 1868 ; three out of 

 the five young birds were brought up by hand, and exhibited at the 

 Crystal Palace the year afterwards in February, being " nearly if not quite 

 ten months old " (Hills in litt.). 



Formerly nested, perhaps has now ceased to do so. 



Months. — April, August, October, November, December, 

 and " the breeding season.'' 



Districts.— 1, 2, 3, 6. 

 About fifty years ago Mr Hoy wrote that during autumn 

 and winter it was found dispersed, generally in small parties, 

 throughout the whole length of the Suffolk coast, wherever 

 there were large tracts of reeds (Hoy in Loudon's Mag. 

 N. H. iii. (1830) 328). It was supposed by the Eev. J. 

 Farr in 1865 still to breed in East Suffolk (A. G. More in 

 Ibis 1865, N. S. i. 121); but Prof. Newton, writing about 

 1874, considered that there was no satisfactory evidence 

 that it bred there in the latter year. (Newton's Farrell, 

 i. 519). This bird is now becoming more and more rare. 



Fam. Ampelid^:. 

 Waxwing, Ampelis garrulus, L. 

 S. and W. Cat. 11. An occasional visitant, but not 



