CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 67 



Kerrison's Collection (W. Clarke in litl.). Two shot at Wetheringsett 

 in Dec. 1866 (Garrett in Z. 2nd. S. 633). 



6. Two shot near Chadacre and preserved at the Hall (C. B !). One 

 shot in Melford Hall wood about 1830 (W. M. White v.v.) Sudbury, 

 a very rare visitant (King, List, 127).* 



7. One shot at Snarehill, Thetford, and four others taken in the 

 neighbourhood Jan. 1835 (Salmon in Loudon's Mag. N. H. ix (1836) p. 

 527). Thetford, Jan. 1856 (Cambridge Museum). Shot at Heigham 

 Dec. 1869 (Tearle MS.). 



8. Stowlangtoft, preserved at the Hall (Hawkins MS.). One at Barton 

 Mills Jan. 1850 (A. Newton in Z. 2769) ; one shot there before 1869 

 (Bilson in Journ. Stiff. Inst, 23 ; the same ?). One shot at Norton Jan. 

 1848, preserved by Mr. Head of Abbeygate Street, Bury St. Edmund's 

 (Bury Post for Feb. 2, 1848). Two killed near Bury St. Edmund's 

 Jan. 18, 1850 (A. Newton in if. 2769). Unusually plentiful about Bury 

 in Jan. 1835, seen at Livermere, Ixworth, Norton, Rougham, Hardwick 

 House, Rushbrooke, Ickworth, and Nowton (H. Turner in Loudon's 

 Mag. N. H. viii. (1835), p. 511). One shot at Rougham Jan. 1883 (L. 

 Travis v.v.). One at Ickworth before 1869 (Bilson in Journ. Suff. Inst. 

 23). Once seen by Col. Parker at Rattlesden, picking gravel (Col. 

 Parker v.v.). 



Months. — January, February, March, November, 

 December. 



Districts, — All. 



Sheppard and Wbitear (u. s.) remark that this bird 

 generally visits us from November to March. No examples 

 appear to have occurred in Suffolk except between these 

 months. Not any of the occasional visitants in Suffolk 

 seem to be more capricious in their appearance than 

 the Waxwing ; in some years scarcely a specimen occurs, 

 while in others it is seen in considerable numbers or in large 

 flocks. In the winter of 1849-50 " perhaps the largest 

 number ever known in this country were observed along 

 the entire Eastern coast of England and in many parts of 

 Scotland." (Stev. B. of N. i. 155). Since that time there 

 has been another large visitation; that of the winter of 

 1866-7 was, as regards the Eastern Counties, quite as 

 remarkable ; the numbers were prodigious (LI. Stevenson 



* Since the foregoing pages were struck for 1838, pp. 126-128, (London and Sud- 



off I have discovered that Mr. King's List bury). It is henceforward quoted by the 



of Birds found near Sudbury was origin- pages of the Journal, 

 ally printed iu Fulcher's Sudbury Journal 



