CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OP SUFFOLK. 139 



Sabine's servant 1819 (Whitear's Diary 251), one killed there preserved 

 and presented to the Norwich Museum by the Rev. W. Whitear (Hunt 

 in Stacey's Hist, of Norfolk lxvii. and Stev. B. of N. ii., 385), another 

 Nov. 13 1849 (Dennis MS. Notes in Bewick), one specimen only 

 seen at Yarmouth Oct. 1841 ; comparatively common there from 

 Oct. to Dec. 184? ; one shot May 14 1853, commencing the change to 

 summer plumage (Stev. B. of N. ii., 384, 385), one from the same place 

 Nov. 13, 1875 (id. in Z. 2nd S. 4776), one Nov. 8, 1876 (id. in Z. 3rd 

 S. i., 98), and one shot Nov. 7, 1878 (id. in Z. 3rd S. iv., 342), another 

 in 1880, seen by Mr. Stevenson Sept. 25 (id. in Z. 3rd S. vi., 334); 

 a female shot on Breydon Dec. 31, 1866, another Oct. 1867, and others 

 Jan. 19 and Nov. 19, 1881 (Stev. B. of N. ii., 385-387, and in Z. 3rd 

 S. vii., 324-326), another Aug. 1883 (W. Lowne in litt). A fine male 

 shot at Gunton Nov. 10, 1868 (T. E. Gunn in Z. 2nd S. p. 1722), one 

 from Lowestoft preserved by Thirtle (Newcome Collection) ; one killed 

 there on the beach by Mr. F. Barton Nov. 26, 1880 (H. Stevenson in 

 Z. 3rd S. vi., 334), 



2. Shot at Easton Broad 1 840 (Spald. u. s.). Not abundant about 

 Aldeburgh, one taken in 1861; a few obtained at Thorpe in the winters 

 of 1866, 69, 71 and 74 (Hele, Aid., 128 and MS.). 



3. One shot near the mouth of the Deben in 1882, by Mr. Russell 

 (Col. Russell in litt,). Shotley, rather rare, found also at Walton, 

 Erwarton, and Holbrook (Kerry MS.), one probably of this species seen 

 flying along the shore of the Stour (S. and W. u. s.). 



West Suffolk. 



7. One at Icklingham, 1840 (Bilson MS.). 



8. Killed near Bury St. Edmund's by J. Dalton Esq., in 1845 (Bilson 

 in Journ. of Suff. Inst. 46. 



Months — May, August, October, November, December. 

 Districts.— 1, 2, 3, 7, 8. 



Found along the whole length of the coast, but not very 

 frequently ; it is somewhat irregular in its appearances. 

 The bird is very rarely met with at any great distance from 

 the sea, its food consisting generally of marine mollusks 

 and young shrimps. It occurs in autumn and winter and 

 very rarely in spring. 



Dunlin, Tringa alpina, L. 

 S. and W. Cat. 43. 



East Suffolk. 



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

 Y. 9), a pair from Yarmouth in 1849, the female in summer plumage 



