134 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



plumage obtained in the neigbourhood in Sept. 1871 (H. Stevenson in 

 Z. 2nd S. 2833 and T. E. Gunn 2852); Breydon, killed Aug. 1871 

 (Booth, Cat. B. 144) ; they are seldom seen in spring on Breydon, but 

 a couple were shot on the ooze in May 1864, and another pair during 

 the same month about five years before (Frere in Stev. B. of N. ii., 

 265), one was picked up dead on Breydon May 1875, just putting on 

 the raff feathers (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd S. 4631), and one obtained 

 there about the middle of Sept. 1880 (H. Stevenson in Z. 3rd S. vi., 

 377). Mr. Lubbock once saw seventy or eighty together in a marsh 

 near Burgh Castle, at the top of Breydon {Fauna of Norf., 106, Ed. 

 1879). 



2. An immature reeve obtained on the beach near Dunwich, August 

 15, 1872 (H. Durnford in Z. 2nd S. 3308). Thorpe Mere, young birds 

 abundant in Aug. and Sept.; only one mature female obtained in May 

 1867 ; one adult male killed July, 1872 (Hele, Aid., 121 and MS.). 

 Aldeburgh (James MS.), annually in autumn (Kerry MS. and J. G. 

 Tuck in Z. 2nd S. 2368, 3799), young birds not uncommon {id. in 

 Z. 2nd S. 3307) ; shot there in Aug. 1871 and in July 1872 (Tuck 

 v.v. who has them, and id. in Z. 2nd S. 3306), and an immature male 

 killed Sept. 26, 1877 {id. in Z. 3rd S. i., 496). A reeve shot at Blaxhall, 

 in Mr. Rope's Collection (Rope MS.). Sudbourne, shot about 1876 in 

 winter plumage, in the Collection of Mr. W. P. T. Phillips (Phillips in 

 litt). 



3. Woodbridge district, in possession of Mr. Hillen ; one a reeve, 

 shot by Mr. P. Carthew, in possession of Mr. W. P. T. Phillips 

 (Carthew MS.). One shot at Walton, Aug. 1871 (Kerry MS.). 



West Suffolk. 



6. One shot in Thorpe Morieux Wood in 1877, in possession of Mr. 

 Scott (W. Steward v.v.). Sudbury (Mr. Hill v.v.), in Mr. King's 

 Collection (C. B. !) 



7. Frequented the fens about Mildenhall in the first quarter of the 

 century, but has now disappeared (see Memoir of Sir H. E.Bunbury, Bart. 

 by Sir Charles Bunbury, p. 104. Lond. 1868); Sir Charles is unable to 

 say for certain that it then bred there, but he always supposed that it 

 did {id. in litt). 



Formerly bred. 



Months. — May, July, August, September. 



Districts.— 1, 2, 3, 6, 7. 



Now extinct in the county except as passing migrants ; 

 this result has been produced by the drainage of the Fens. 

 On Breydon where they were formerly abundant, they are 

 seldom seen in spring, though still found in greater numbers 



