140 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



(Bury Museum) ; some shot there early in June 1880 (H. Stevenson in 

 Z. 3rd S. vi., 377) ; some in different states of plumage killed on 

 Breydon, Dee. 13 1819 (Whitear's Diary, 251) ; feeds on the Breydon 

 flats ; a white one killed there in spring, having only a few feathers 

 rust-colour (Stev. B. of N. ii., pp. 372, 384), a rather pale variety 

 a female obtained from Breydon Broad in Dec. 1868 ; in Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney's Collection (C. B. !) ; small flocks on Breydon flats in September 

 and October 1863 seen by Mr. Harting, who has described their habits 

 there at great length (Stev. u. s. 374) ; immense flocks there Dec. 

 1878 (id. in Z. 3rd S. iv., 342). A few of the small race ( T. torquata 

 Degland) have been obtained at Yarmouth, one on April 28, 1858, in 

 Prof. Newton's and Mr. Stevenson's Collections (Stev. B. of N. ii., 38). 

 Often picked up dead at the foot of the lighthouse at Lowestoft, killed 

 by striking against the windows (Stev. B. of N., 377). 



2. Very plentiful at Southwold Aug. 1871, extremely rare the 

 following Aug. (H. Durnford in Z. 2nd S. 3308) ; one of the small race 

 shot there in company with a large flock of the usual size Aug 21, 1873 

 (id. in Z. 2nd S. 3798). Killed on Lord Huntingfield's Estate ; in his 

 Collection (Lord Huntingfield in litt). Very abundant about Alde- 

 burgh ; a perfectly white one killed at Thorpe Aug. 1865 (Hele, Aid., 

 127, 128) ; plentiful there July 1881 (J. Tuck in Z. 3rd S. v., 468), many 

 seen there Sept. 1882 (H. A. Macpherson in Z. 3rd S. vii., 16). Shot 

 on Sudbourn Hall Estate in Sir B,. Wallace's Collection (C. B. !). 



3. Very common about Shotley (Kerry MS.). 



West Suffolk. 



6. Boxted (T. Poley v.v.). Mr. King once or twice noticed immense 

 flocks apparently of this species skimming over the low meadows at 

 Sudbury during floods, most probably, he thought, intermixed with 

 other species as the Pigmy Curlew, King Dotterel, and Sanderling 

 (King, List, 127). One seen by Capt. Bence by the side of his moat 

 at Kentwell Hall, Melford, May 25, 1884 ; the other birds molested it 

 (Bence v.v.) 



7. Thetford (Stev. B. of N. ii., 379, from A. Newton), and a male and 

 female obtained there May 1851 (A. and E. Newton, Cambridge 

 Museum). 



8. One in winter plumage caught by a cat at Sicklesmere Feb. 1879 

 (Mrs. Mothersole v.v. who gave me the bird, C. B. !). Drinkstone, 

 occasionally (Capt. Powell in litt). 



Months. — February, April, May, June, July, August, 

 September, October, December. 



Districts.— 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8. 



One of the commonest birds on the coast, where it is 

 found during nearly the whole year, and sometimes met 

 with very far inland, In severe winters hundreds are 



