CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 83 



March 1869 (A. Clark-Kennedy in Z. 2nd S. p. 1860) ; two birds with 

 wings quite white and a third partially white observed at Woodbridge 

 Dec. 1870 ; a flock at Play ford had 'two or three very pretty similar 

 varieties (E. C. Moor in Z. 2nd S. 2483) ; a hen bird of a dirty white 

 colour shot in July 1851, at Ipswich, and a light cream-coloured one 

 some time before (R. P.O. in Naturalist for 1851, 210); one almost 

 entirely white seen at Bacton, Jan. 1883 (A. B. Hemsworth in litt), and 

 a whitish variety shot in spring 1875 at Cockfield (in Mr. Hustler's 

 possession, C. B !) ; others more or less white have been seen there 

 (0. B!), and one at Bury St. Edmund's, Nov. 1883 (0. B !). 



This bird is supposed above to be a partial migrant, (see 

 Harvie-Brown and J. Cordeaux u. s.), but Mr. J. II. 

 Gurney jun. in litt. suspects some error in the observation 

 recorded. He regards the I louse Sparrow as a non-migrant. 



Greenfinch, Coccothranstes chloris (L.). 



S. and W. Cat, 25. Catalogued only. 



Districts all. Very common everywhere. Nests. 



Hawfinch, Coceothraustes vulgaris, Stephens. 



S. and W. Cat, 25. Occasionally seen, for the most part 



during the winter season. — Spald. List, xxxvi. Bare. 



Districts all ; about fifty different localities named. Nests or young 

 birds are recorded from Loudham Park (F. Spalding), Great Bealings 

 (Moor), Kesgrave (F. Spalding), and Bramford (Haward), in East 

 Suffolk ; and from Redgrave (Wilson), Oakley (W. Clarke), Finborough 

 Park (H. Stevenson), Kersey (F. Spalding), Sudbury in 1880, young 

 birds brought up by Mr. Hills (J. F. Hills), Polstead, twelve nests 

 found in nine years lately (E. B. Cooke), Dalhani (Tearle), Livermere or 

 Ampton (H. Stevenson), Saxham (Creed), Bury St. Edmund's, in the 

 Vinefields about 1830 (H. T. Frere), Tostock (J. G. Tuck), Hardwick 

 (Hawkins), Ickworth (Creed), and Rattlesden (Col. Parker), in West 

 Suffolk. The nests are often found in apple trees. 



This conspicuous bird is not common anywhere, and is 

 somewhat uncertain in its appearances, but it is recorded 

 from such a large number of localities that it can hardly now 

 be considered rare. Its numbers and the occurrences of its 

 nesting appear to have greatly increased of late years Large 

 flights occurred on the coast in Jan. 1823, in 1855, in the 

 severe season of 1859-60, and again in the mild winter of 



