CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK 87 



this rare bird ; the last being killed in 1 868, all the others 

 before 1857 (see also Stev. B. of N. i. 253).§ 



Fam. Cokvidjs. 

 Kaven, Corvus cor ax, L. 

 S. and W. Cat. 8. — Spald. List, xxxvi. Catalogued only. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Yarmouth, now very rarely seen (Paget, Y. 6). 



2. Two took up their quarters in a wood near Thorpe Aug. 1867. 

 Occasionally visits Aldeburgh ; four met with there Sept. 186 J, three 

 seen Nov. 1876 (Hele, Aid. 84-85 and in FieldNov. 24 1876). Two 

 seen close to Slaughden Oct. 31, 1862 ; one watched near Orford 

 fighting a Kestrel, Jan. 18G4 (Hele u, s.). 



3. Seen and heard in Great Bealings and bred there about 1840 ; 

 now never seen (Moor MS.). Used to breed in Playford wood, now 

 nearly extinct in that neighbourhood (M. Biddell in litt.). Three 

 observed devouring a hare at Higham in Nov. 1862, one shot (W. L. 

 Barclay in Z. 7932). 



West Suffolk. 



5. Visits Oakley occasionally ; Brome, scarce (W. Clarke MS.). 



6. Sudbury, not uncommon (King, List, 127). One was taken at 

 Brundon Hall by the Stour near Sudbury, about 1878, and kept alive 

 by Mr. Hills (Hills v. v.). Formerly seen about Bures, but has now 

 disappeared ( A. Hanbury in litt). 



7. Bred at Icklingham from time immemorial till 1857, when the nest 

 was built at Elveden ; in the course of the next few years the nest was 

 sometimes built at Elveden, sometimes at Icklingham. About 1864, or 

 a little later, the birds were destroyed. A young one taken from the 

 nest in 1852; believed to be alive in 1884 (A. Newton in litt.). A pair 

 bred for years in Warren Hill Plantation (Howlett) ; they have dis- 

 appeared of late (Tearle MS). Newmarket (Newcome Collection). 



8. Livermere, shot by Fakes (James MS.). Mr. Creed, while living 

 at Saxham from 1858 to 1862, had a tame Raven ; two wild ones used 

 to come in the early morning and sit and croak by it. He often saw 

 them wheeling round and round high in the air, croaking and calling to 



§ The following has no right to be (Travis in litt. and Bury Free Press 



accounted a Suffolk bird .— Sept. 23, 1882). Capt. Powell, of Drink- 



* Chough, Pyrrhocorax graculns (L.). stone Park informs me that he has no 



" A splendid specimen of this bird was doubt that this was an escaped bird of his 



shot at Hawstead Sept. 19, 1882, and own; one of his tame Choughs having 



preserved by Travis for Miss Wallace," gone off in company with some Jackdaws 



who has it ; it was supposed to be the on Sept. 17. 

 only specimen ever takeu m Suffolk 



