CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 113 



Smith, of the Dog Inn, and was sent as a present to the Queen 

 (Hawkins MS.)- 



Formerly bred. 



Months. — February, July or August, August, September. 

 Also " spring," "breeding-season/' and " winter." 

 Districts. — 3, 7, 8. 



This noble bird appears to have been indigenous in the 

 county from time immemorial ; we possess records that it has 

 been a native of Suffolk for two hundred years.* It has 

 unhappily ceased to be so within our own time. Every 

 example which has occurred during the last fifty years has 

 probably migrated from the Continent. "j* Mr. Stevenson has 

 taken great pains to ascertain the history of such Norfolk 

 and Suffolk Bustards as are still preserved in public or 

 private Collections, as well as of their authenticated eggs 

 (Stev. B.o/N. u. s.).% 



Little Bustard, Otis tetrax, L. 

 S. and W. Cat. 36. — Spald. List, xxxvii. Very rare. 



East Suffolk. 



1. An adult female shot March 1858, in the Southdown Marshes at 

 Gorleston ; in Mr. J. H. (xurney's Collection (Stev. B.of N., ii., 45, and 



* Mr. J. H. Gurney jun. considers that % There appear to have been in East 



there can be hardly any doubt that the Anglia during the last and the preceding 



Bustard, commonly spoken of as a century three principal head-quarters of the 



resident in East Anglia, left England for the Bustard, at each of which the "drove," 



the south as soon as the nesting season as it was called, resided ; but still not so 



was over, i.e., in September (in Utt.). constantly as that the birds never inter- 

 mingled. (1.) The country round 



f A case of Bustards at Helmingham S waff ham in Norfolk, and entirely 



Hall, is without any certain history ; the included in that county ; Westacre being 



birds were probably killed in Suffolk the spot especially frequented. (2.) The 



(Stev. B. ofN. ii., 38, 39). The late Mr. neighbourhood of Thetford, stretching 



G. Creed, surgeon, of Bury St. Edmund's, from Brettenham and Snarehill in Norfolk 



had also a stutfed specimen, the history of across the county border to Elveden, 



which was unknown (J. D. in Loudon's Barnham, North Stowe, Cavenham, Ick- 



N. R. vi., (1833), 150). His lingham, and probably still further on 



nephew, the late Rev. H. K. Creed, has towards Mildenhall in Suffolk. (3.) The 



taken no notice of this specimen in his tract around Newmarket, partly in 



MS. as he would probably have done had Cambridgeshire partly in Suffolk, sepa- 



he known anything certain about it, but rated by a slight interval from the 



it was in all likelihood obtained in West preceding. The bird was almost confined 



Suffolk. to the warrens or breckswith their adjoin- 

 ing wheat-lands. 



