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Collection of Mr. W. P. T. Phillips). Very common about Shotley 

 (Kerry MS.). 



West Suffolk. 



6. Sudbury, not common (King, List, 128). 



Months. — January, February, May, August, September, 

 October, November, December. 



Districts. — 1, 2, 3, 6. 

 Common in some places on the coast ; but very rarely 

 found at any great distance from it. The bird has been 

 taken in fine state, both in summer and winter plumage, 

 although not found during the summer months, It is a 

 spring and autumn migrant (see account of its migrations 

 in 8. and W. u. s., and Stev. B. of N. ii., 354-356). 



Cuelew Sandpiper, Tringa subarquata (Giildenstaedt). 



S. and W. Cat. 43, 



East Suffolk. 



1. One killed at Yarmouth, in the Norwich Museum (Hunt in Stacey's 

 Hist, of Norfolk lxvi.); several killed there, one in Aug. with a red 

 breast (S. and W. u. s.); common there in winter, but rare in summer 

 plumage (Paget Y. 9); one from this place in summer plumage (British 

 Museum); several shot in the neighbourhood in summer plumage May 

 1836 (Hoy in Loudon's Mag. N H. (N.S.) (1837), i., 117); a 

 specimen shot there 1852 (Bury Museum), again in 1869 (A. M. B. in 

 Nat. Note Book, 350, 351); on (Sept. 13. 1870, Mr. Gunn received four 

 immature specimens from Yarmouth, and Mr. J. H. Gurney jun. saw 

 thirty more in Leadenhall Market, all young, said to have come 

 from Yarmouth ; the occurrence of this species in such numbers, says 

 Mr. Stevenson, is very unusual on that coast (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd S., 

 2496), nine or ten shot there Sept. 12, 1874 {id. in Z. 2nd S. 4292). 

 Occasionally met with on Breydon in the rich red plumage of the 

 breeding season ; one in Mr. Harting's Collection ; shot there Oct. 1854, 

 May 1863, Sept. 1863, April 1866 (Stev. B. of N. ii., 351-353 and J. 

 E. Harting in Z. 8827); two males in full summer plumage obtained 

 there May 1871 (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd S. 2829); two procured out of 

 a flock near this place Sept. 12, 1873 {id. in Z. 2nd S. 3859) ; several 

 in the first week of Oct. 1876 (id. in Z. 3rd S. i., 96) ; some, in red 

 plumage, shot there June 28, and some appeared at Yarmouth early in 

 Aug. 1880 {id. in Z. 3rd S. vi., 377); a flock of six shot in summer 

 plumage, breasts red, July 28, 1880, one a male in Mr. Gurney's 

 Collection (J. H. Gurney jun. in Mason's Norfolk, part iv.) ; some 

 young ones shot on Breydon Sept. 6, 1881, when they appeared to be 



