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sticticalis, patealis, Crambus latisirius, Warringtonellus, 

 Anerastia lotella among the Ppralidina ; Aspilates citraria, 

 Eubolia lineolata, Acidalia rubiicata, emutaria among the 

 Geomeirina ; Sericoris cespiiana among the Tortricina ; and 

 Gelechia artemisiella, marmorea, anthyllidella, piclella among 

 the Tineina. He also mentions, in addition to the plants 

 already named, the Equisetum variegatum, which he once con- 

 sidered not uncommon, but which he has not seen for many 

 years, the ground which it frequented having been grazed and 

 trodden down by cattle. This is perhaps " a more distinctly 

 maritime plant " than the others. If these facts favour the 

 presumption that Thetford was once washed by the sea, the 

 marine range would indicate, so far as he can judge from 

 his own experience and the notices in Stainton's Manual, 

 "a broad estuary running from the South Suffolk coast 

 between Bury St. Edmund's and Stowmarket through 

 Thetford to Stanford and Bodney, seven or eight miles 

 North of Thetford."* 



Kentish Plover, JEgialitis cantiana (Latham). 



East Suffolk. 



1. Killed at Yarmouth, in the Norwich Museum in 1829 (Hunt in 

 Slacey's Hist of Norfolk p. lxviii. ) ; rarely met with there (Paget, Y. 10); 

 shot there in May 1831, in Jan. 1834, and Feb. 1836f (Stev. B. of N. ii., 

 98), one or two near Yarmouth June 1849 (J. H. Gurney in Z. 2499), 

 and an adult male killed there May 27, 1869 (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd S. 

 1911) ; one from Yarmouth is in the Bury Museum, and birds were 

 sent from that place to Mr. Dennis on various occasions (Note in 

 Museum) ; one from this place (Newcome Collection) ; a few near 

 Yarmouth, partly on Breydon, in April and May of various years (Stev. 

 B. of N. ii., 98, 99) ; one killed on the beach Sept. 25, 1881 (H. 

 Stevenson in Z., 3rd S. vii., 318) ; one killed on a heap of stones on 



* Mr. Southwell believes that the barren wastes of Thetford arid Brandon 



Ring Dotterel has deserted its old nest- Heaths (Miller and Skertchley Fenland, 



ing places on Brandon Heath, and that 3S2 note). 



the birds now frequenting Thetford f Mr - J - H. Gurney jun. suspects the 



Warren, and breeding there are ac 2uracy of the records of the bird said 



descendants of the birds which rested to have been shot in January and 



on the shores of the prehistoric bay, February [in litt.). 

 the sandy margins of which are now the 



