136 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



river attacked by a Hawk, when it instantly dived and 

 remained under water until its enemy disappeared ; it then 

 emerged and joined its companions (u. s. 46). It is some- 

 times known in Suffolk as the Summer Snipe ; it is not 

 known to breed. 



Knot, Tringa canulus, L. 



S. and W. Cat. 43.— Spald. List, xxxvii. Catalogued 

 only. 



East Suffolk, 



1. Yarmouth, common in both winter and summer plumage (Paget, 

 Y. 9) ; a bird, called by Whitear a Red Sandpiper, probably a Knot in 

 breeding plumage, received from Yarmouth May 25, 1817 (Whitear's 

 Diary, 245, Note); one procured there May 1820 (figured in YarrelPs 

 Brit. Birds) ; shot there 1850 (Bury Museum) ; a great many obtained 

 in red plumage in May 1853 (Stev. B. of N. ii., 854), a single 

 gunner procured seventy-three on May 13 (J. H. Gurney in Z. 3946;, 

 a great many again in the spring of 1864 (Stev. u. s.). A fine male 

 with red breast from Yarmouth iu Mr. Gurney 's Collection (C. B. !). 

 A male and female in summer plumage shot near Yarmouth (Newcome 

 Collection). They are rarely found on Brevdon late in the autumn, one 

 shot there Oct. 1867 by Mr. J. E. Harting (Stev. B of N. ii., 356), 

 several in good red plumatre obtained there May 1871 ( H . Stevenson in 

 Z. 2nd S. 2829), and shot there by Hurr about 1872 (Mr. Combe's 

 Collection, C. B.). ; many near there Sept. 1873 (H. Stevenson in Z. 

 2nd S. 3859; ; again in May 1874 [id. in Z. 2nd S. 4191) ; one in full 

 breeding plumage Aug. 1 1876 (F. Kerry in Z. 2nd S. 5083), a few 

 seen there Dec. 1 878, on May 1 2 and early and in the middle of Sept. 

 1880 (H. Stevenson in Z. 3rd S. iv., 342, and vi., 377), and one in 

 Nov. 1881 (G. Smith in lift). 



2. One shot at Leiston Feb. 7, 1873 (G. T. Rope in Z. 2nd S. 3608). 

 A few in Thorpe Mere Dec. 31, 1878 (F. M. Ogilvie in Z. 3rd S. iii., 

 265). Very common in winter in Aldeburgh, but only a very few 

 obtained in summer dress (Hele, AM,, 125); annually at Aldeburgh in 

 autumn (Kerry MS. and see J. G. Tuck in Z. 2nd S. 2368, 3307, and 

 3799), one in red plumage shot there Aug. 1879 ; others shot Jan. 1880 

 (T. E. Gunn in Z. 3rd. S. iv., 52) ; some pitched on Aldeburgh beach 

 Aug. 31, 1882, one in winter dress but another, a female, still bore con- 

 siderable traces of the red breast (H. A. Macpherson in Z. 3rd S. vii., 

 15). 



3. One shot Nov. 1868 on the river near Melton (A. Clark-Kennedy 

 in Z. 2nd S. 1699). Woodbridge, Aug. 1881, in full summer plumage 

 (Asten v.v. C. B. !). Near the sea-coast on the river Deben (in the 



