CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



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Diary). It has always been considered an excellent dish 

 (see Sir T. Browne u. s.). 



Kinged Plovek, JEgialitis hiaticula (L). 



S. and W. Cat. 37. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Yarmouth sands (Sir T. Browne, who calls it the Einglestone. 

 Works iv., 321. Ed. Wilkin) ; Yarmouth, common (Paget, Y. 10). 

 Appears in large flocks on Breydon about the middle of Feb., or more 

 commonly at the beginning of March, and a second flight commonly 

 appears in the first or second week of May ; re-appearing at the end of 

 Aug., or beginning of Sept., some still remain in Jan.* (Stev. B. of N. 

 ii., 91). Breeds in small numbers nearly every year at Lowestoft 

 (Thirtle in lift. ; J. H. Gurney jun. in lift). 



2. A great many at Leistonin Jan. 1873, a half-fledsred one caught on 

 the beach in July, 1873 (G-. T. Rope in Z. 2nd S. 360*, 3867). Thorpe 

 and elsewhere near Aldeburgh, breeds on the beach in small hollows 

 scooped out of the shingle (Hele, Aid., 107). Breeds between Sizewell 

 and Dunwich (Rope MS.) ; and between Aldeburgh and Orford (A. 

 Clark-Kennedy in Z. 2nd S. 1695); plentiful at the former place in 

 July 1881 (J. Tuck in Z. 3rd S. v., 468) ; many seen there Sept. 1882 

 (H. A. Macpherson in Z. 3rd S. vii., 15, 16). Shot on Sudbourn Hall 

 Estate, in Sir R. Wallace's Collection (C. B. !). 



3. Common on the shores of the Orwell and Stour ; breeds at 

 Walton and Felixstowe (Kerry MS.). 



West Suffolk. 



5. Occasionally met with at Oakley (W. Clarke in lift.). 



6. Two killed near'Melford ; stuffed by Richold for Capt. Solomons 

 (Richold, v.v.). Sudbury, July 1879 (Rose v. v. C. B. !). 



7. Very abundant when Salmon wrote in 1836 upon all the Thetford 

 warrens during the breeding season ; it commenced nesting very early, 

 the eggs having been found on the 30th of March in a cavity scraped in 

 the earth ; after the young were reared, it took its departure by 

 the middle of August for the sea-coast, where it remained throughout 

 the winter. (Salmon in Loudon's Mag. N. H. ix. (1836) 522). Seen at 



* A smaller form of this bird is occa- (Yarrell's Br. B. iii., 259, 4th Ed.), 



sionally killed on Breydon, mostly in regards this as a southern form, with a 



May, once in March 1867 ; one killed darker mantle and more sharply defined 



(in 1850 C. B !) at Yarmouth is in the coloration. It has been made a distinct 



Bury Museum (H. Stevenson B. ofN. ii., species under the name oiMg. intermedia 



95, 96). One was obtained by Mr. Tuck, (Menetries) ; but for this, in Mr. Saunders' 



at Aldeburgh, Aug. 1873 (Tuck in Z. opinion, there do not seem to be sufficient 



2nd S., 3799). Mr, Howard Saunders grounds. 



