126 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



(Carthew MS.) ; another in Nov. 1881 (Asten v. v. C. B. !). Walton 

 and Felixstowe (Kerry MS.). 



West Suffolk. 



6. One seen by Mr. King on the banks of the Stour, near Sudbury, 

 when its waters had been drawn off (King, List, 127). 



7. Two killed at Lakenheath March 1866 (J. H. Gurney, jun., in 

 Mason's Norfolk pt. iv., from the Field ; he thinks they had followed 

 the course of the Ouse). 



Has bred. 



Months. — March, May, August, September, November. 



Districts. — 1, 2, 3, 6, 7. 



Has occurred along the whole length of the coast, but 

 not commonly of late years in some places. Very few 

 specimens have been met with far inland. The name of 

 Oyster-Catcher is quite a misnomer, but it is very dexterous 

 in detaching limpets. It is called Sea-pye at Yarmouth (J. 

 H. Gurney jun. in litt.) 



Fam. Scolopacim;. 



Avocet, Recurvirostra avocetta, L. 



Kay, The Ornithology of Willughby, 322, Lond. 1678. 

 Frequents our Eastern coasts in Suffolk ... in winter 

 time. (See also Plot Nat. Hist. Staff. 231, Oxf. 1686). 

 — S. and W. Cat. 41. — Spald. List, xxxvii. Now very 

 rare. 



1. A pair killed at Yarmouth June 1851 and preserved by Knight (J. 

 0. Harper in Z. 3208) ; a male and a female from Yarmouth preserved 

 by Knight in the Newcome Collection, probably the same birds (C. B. !) ; 

 a pair killed April 22, 1852 (L. H. Irby in Z. 3504) ; another pair 

 June 12, 1852, one April 1857, another May 1864, two May 1865 (Stev. 

 B. of N. ii., 242 from Nat. 1870) ; one in 1853 (Bury Museum) ; two 

 sent in May 1878 to Norwich from Yarmouth, one perhaps the Lowestoft 

 bird (see below and H. Stevenson in Z. 3rd S. iii., 155). One shot there 

 April 12, and another seen in May 1880 (H. Stevenson in Z. 3rd S. vi., 

 368). On Breydon, etc., but rather rare of late years {i.e. before 1834) 

 (Paget, Y. 8) ; killed or seen there in May and July 1842, March 28, 

 1843, May 1852, and May 1863 (Stev. B. of N ii., 241, 242) ; two shot 

 there March 1876, and one in June 1878 (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd S., 



