104 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



Norfolk and Suffolk by Mr. Norgate in Z. 3rd S. viii , 

 86-91. 



Order III. Easores. 



Fam. Columbule. 



Ring Dove or "Wood Pigeon, Columba palumbus, L. 



S. and W. Cat. 33. (Catalogued only). 



Districts all. Common everywhere. Nests. A variety 

 partly white from Somerleyton (Freeman v.v.); a pale 

 variety shot at Thornham (Lord Henniker v.v. in whose 

 Collection it is, C. B. !) ; one shot at Chellesworth with 

 white and pale plumage on the wings (Bantock v.v., C. B. !). 



Stock Dove, Columba cenas, L. 



S. and W. Cat. 33. Now (in 1824) rarely seen in Suffolk ; 

 it formerly visited the county in prodigious flocks iu winter. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Rarely seen about Yarmouth (Paget, Y. 7). A specimen from 

 Belton Feb. 23, 1882 (in my Collection, C. B.) ; several seen at the 

 same place in March, 1882 (G. Smith in lift.). Bred in old trees at 

 Herringfleet (S. and W. u. s. from Mr. Leathes). 



2. Nests at Westleton (F. Spalding MS.). 



3. Found at Great Bealings, where it is never very common though 

 it breeds annually, nests found as early as April 10, and as late as Sept. 

 27, containing two eggs (E. C.Moor in Z. 2nd S. 1517, and E. J. 

 Moor MS.). A small flock seen in a stubble field at Felixstowe Nov. 

 6, 1860 (J. Grubb in Z. 7351.). 



4. Occurs at Bramford (H award MS.). 



West Suffolk. 



5. Breeds at Eedgrave (Foster-Melliar MS.). Common at Oaklev 

 (W. Clarke MS). 



6. Breeds at Clipt Bushes, Cockfield (W. M. White v.v.) ; and 

 elsewhere in the parish, but is not common there, (C. B !). Found at 

 Kettlebaston (W. M. White v.v.). Nests at Hadleigh (F. Spalding 

 MS.). Common at Sudbury (King, List, 127). Very common about 

 Polstead, eggs often taken there (E. B. Cooke v.v.). 



7. Multitudes bred (about 1780) in rabbit-burrows on the sandy 

 plains of Suffolk about Brandon, and the shepherds annually took the 

 young for sale (Pennant, Arctic Zoology, ii. 329, fide A. Newton in lift). 

 Breeds in March at Thetford, leaving about the end of October, 



