1 24 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



Breydon April 1843 (W. E. Fisher in Z. 181); shot there in summer 

 about 1876 by Hurr, in Mr. Combe's Collection (C. B. !) ; a male 

 and two females shot April, 1878 (H. Stevenson in Z. 3rd S. iv., 

 341 ) ; two or three seen on Breydon in April 1879 and one female 

 shot; two other females shot in Oct. the same year (T. E. Gunn in 

 Z. 3rdS. iv., 51) ; immature male shot there August 18, 1881, three 

 seen there Sept. 1881 (J. H. Gurney jun. in Z. 3rd S. v., 487), a female 

 shot on the 14th, a male on the 22nd, and two Oct. 24, all immature (H. 

 Stevenson in Z. 3rd S. vii., 318-320 and Lowne in liti), another also 

 immature shot there May 26, 1883 (W. Lowne in Utt). Lowestoft April 

 1865 (Thirtle in Utt.), in possession of Mr. Newcome (Stev. B. of N. ii., 

 98, 99) ; several observed there by Mr. Barton on the North beach 

 towards the end of Sept. 1880 ; one was shot by a gunner at the same 

 time ; they ran about at a great pace, thrusting their bills under tufts 

 of grass and retreating ; when on the wing they uttered a plaintive 

 cry of two notes (H. Stevenson in Z. 3rd S. vi., 334). 



2. Mr. F. M. Spalding shot one at Easton Broad (F. Spalding MS.). 

 Two male birds obtained at Thorpe in June 1869, (Hele, Aid. 107), now 

 in the Aldeburgh Museum (C. B. !). One shot at Aldeburgh by Mr. 

 Crewe in Sept. 1880, in his Collection (Y. H. Crewe in Utt.). 



Months. — January ? February ? April, May, June, August, 



September, October. 



Districts. — 1, 2. 



A rare species in this country, confined almost entirely to 

 the southern and eastern counties, " where it is considered 

 to be only a summer visitant " (J. H. Gurney jun. in Utt.) ; 

 it is not known to breed in Suffolk. The late Mr. F. Frere 

 informed Mr. Stevenson, that although observed on Breydon 

 only in small numbers, scarcely a year passed without one or 

 more examples being obtained in that neighbourhood, either 

 in spring or autumn (Stev. u. s. 100). 



Turnstone, Strepsilas interpres, L. 



S. and W. Cat. 38. Found sparingly on the sea-coast. 



East Suffolk. 

 1. Yarmouth, not uncommon (Paget, Y. 10); two males obtained there 

 May 1H64 (T. E. Gunn in Nat for 1864, p. 45) ; a few killed there 

 early in June and in the first week of Aug. 1880 (H Stevenson in Z. 

 3rd S. vi., 377). A solitary specimen shot on Breydon Oct. 24, 1867 

 by Mr. J. E. Harting (Dresser B. of Ear. vii., 557) ; several killed 

 there in June 1862, in May 1871, some obtained May 1874 (H. 



