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CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



sand martin's hole May 1867 (E. C. Moor in Z. 2nd S. 822). Mr. Moor 

 saw one at Slaughden Sept. 1857 (Moor MS.). 



3. Mr. F. Spalding shot one by the Rifle range, on Bromeswell Heath 

 in 1861 (F. Spalding MS.). Seen at Freston (S. and W. u. s.). 

 Common in winter at Shotley and Walton (Kerry MS.). 



4. Occasional visitor to B ram ford, sometimes arrives in large 

 numbers (Haward MS.). 



West Suffolk. 



5. One from Eye (Bury Museum). 



6. One trapped in Cockfield in Nov. 1881 by A. Parish, who has 

 several times seen the bird there (C. B !). Lavenham, two specimens 

 stuffed by Garrard, jun (C. B !). Sudbury, not uncommon (King, List, 

 127) ; one taken April 1876 (in my Collection, C. B. ). Nests at Polstead 

 (Cooke MS.). Visited Stoke-by-Nayland in considerable numbers in 

 the autumn, remaining till February or March (J. 1). Hoy writing to 

 Mr. Selby in 1828 ; see Field Nov. 1867). 



7. A nest taken by Prof. Newton in a pollard willow at Wangford, 

 June 1853 (Stev. B. ofN. i. 207). Gazeley, rare (Tearle MS.). 



8. Livermere (James MS.). Rougham (A. Parish v.v.). Rattlesden 

 (Col. Parker v.v.). 



Nests. 



Months. — February, March, April, May, June, September, 

 October, November, and " winter." 



Districts. — All. 

 Dresser (B. of Eur. in, 598) calls this bird very common in 

 Suffolk ; it would rather seem that, although generally dis- 

 tributed throughout the county, it is scarcely to be called 

 plentiful except in some few places. In Professor Newton's 

 experience it is a very local bird in the county (Newton in 

 litt. ; see also Stev. B. of N. i. 206). It is partially 

 migratory in autumn. 



House Sfarrow, Passer domesticus (L.). 



S. and W. Cat. 25. 



Districts all. Very common everywhere. Nests. A large flock of 

 both sexes observed going west at the Corton Light Vessel Sept. 28, 

 1879. (Report on the Migration of Birds by J. A. Harvie-Brown and J. 

 Cordeaux in Z. 3rd S. iv., 180). Several varieties are recorded ; a pale 

 whitish coloured one, with barred tail, shot on the Sudbourn Hall 

 Estate (in Sir R. Wallace's Collection C. B !) ; a black one killed near 

 Melton in Jan. 1869, and several pied examples (A. Clark-Kennedy in 

 Z. 2nd S. p. 1858) ; an albino seen by Rev. W. Freeman near Marlesford 



