84 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



1872-3. (Paget, Y. 6 ; Stev. B. of N. i. 215-7 ; id. in Z. 

 5751, and 2nd S. 3561). 



Bullfinch, Pyrrhula vulgaris, Teraminck. 



S. and W. Cat. 25. 



Districts all. Generally common or not uncommon. 

 Uncertain in its appearances at Aldeburgh, but at times 

 abundant. (Hele, Aid. 178). Nests. 



Fam. Loxiid^e. 



Crossbill, Loxia curvirostra, L. 



S. and W. Cat. 24. — Spald. List, xxxvi. Catalogued only. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Yarmouth, occasionally shot in the winter (Paget, Y. 6) ; three 

 pairs shot near that place in May 1856 (Stev. B.tfN. i. 236). A 

 nestling obtained in summer 1880, near Normanston, Lowestoft, driven 

 by a dog out of a gooseberry bush ; in possession of Mrs. Leathes. 

 (Freeman v.v). 



2. Killed on Lord Huntingfield's Estate ; in his Collection (Lord 

 Huntingfield in lift.). One from Blythburgh (Cambridge Museum). 

 Westleton, rare (T. M. Spalding MS.). Yoxford, 1827 (Acton in 

 Loudon's Mag. N. H. iv. (1831), 163). Appears only at long intervals 

 at Aldeburgh, a dozen or more stayed for a week in the autumn of 

 1864, two killed near the Telegraph in 1868 (Hele, Aid. 98). 

 Some young birds killed near Thorpe Nov. 1868 (A. Clark-Kennedy in 

 Z. 2nd S. 1698). Shot at Rendlesham in autumn 1868 {id. u. s.). 

 Several (perhaps the same as those above) shot close to Rendlesham 

 Hall by Lord Rendlesham on larches, now in his Collection (C. B. !). 



3. Seven seen in 1862, alighting on a larch near Loudham Park ; 

 two shot, now preserved at the Hall (F. Spalding MS.). Shot in 

 autumn 1868 near Melton (A. J. Clark-Kennedy u. s.) A male and 

 female shot Jan. 1822 in Little Bealings by the late Mr. Noursey. Mr. 

 Moor saw a pair in Great Bealings in April 1811 (Moor MS.). Two 

 killed near Woodbridge Dec. 1868 (A. J. Clark-Kennedy u. s. 1700). 



4. Numerous at Offton in 1810 ; a small flock at the same place in 

 March 1815, a pair had completed their nest when they were destroyed 

 by a hawk (S. and W. Cat. 24). Said to have bred in Orwell Park near 

 Ipswich in 1822 (Yarrell Br. B. by Newton, ii. 189). Seen in 

 plantations near Ipswich in the winter of 1832-3, feeding on cones of 

 spruce fir ; one killed in nestling plumage in Sept. 1833 (J. D. Hoy in 

 Loudon's Mag. N. //. vii. (1834) 54). 



West Suffolk. 



5. Very numerous one year (1838) at Palgrave (Clarke in lift.). A 



