CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK 71 



West Suffolk. 



6. One seen within ten yards for five minutes at Hadleigh, April 

 1881 (P. Spalding in Utt.). 



Months. — April, December. 



Districts.- -1, 6. 



This rare species may be said to be a Suffolk bird, as it has 

 been once killed on Breydon. The other example from near 

 Yarmouth may be from Norfolk, and the Hadleigh one is 

 doubtful, not having been procured. 



Fam. Alatjdid^. 

 Sky Lark, Alauda arvensis, L. 



S. and W. Cat. 22. 



Districts all. Very common everywhere. Nests. White 

 varieties are recorded from Lowestoft in 1872 (Thirtle MS.); 

 Aldeburgh in 1873 (Tuck Collection) ; Southwold about 

 1858 (Hurr v.v.) ; and from near the river Deben in 1870 

 and 1871 (E. C. Moor). Albino varieties from Aldeburgh in 

 Oct. 1867 (Hele, Aid. 96) ; near Melton in spring 1868 (A. 

 Clark-Kennedy in Z. 2nd S. 1699) ; a pied variety from 

 Aldeburgh in 1865 (Hele, Aid. 95); an almost perfectly 

 cream-coloured one, very old, from near Hazlewood in Nov. 

 1872 (Hele MS.), and a pale variety from Drinkstone, in 

 Captain Powell's possession (C. 13. !). A nestling with tail 

 and lower part of wings white taken at Lawshall in 1882 ; 

 after moulting the tail lost all, and the wings most of the 

 white feathers (C. B.!). 



Sheppard and Whitear observe, on the authority of 

 Mr. Woolnough of Hollesley, that these birds frequently 

 migrate into Suffolk from the continent in autumn, 

 and return thither in the spring. He has seen them in 

 February on the coast in innumerable flocks, but disappear- 

 ing as soon as the weather became fine with a light 

 westerly wind, from which he concluded that they again 

 crossed the sea (See also Stev. B. of N. i. 177-178). 



