CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 145 



Red-Necked Phalarope, Phalaropus hyperboreus (L). 



East Suffolk. 



1. Yarmouth, very rare ; Mr. Miller had a pair, one in winter and the 

 other in summer plumage (Paget, Y. 9 ; now in Mr. Gurney's 

 Collection) ; one killed near that place in Oct. 1850 ; another in Nov. 

 1854 (Stev. B. of N. ii., 440); a male bird June 19, 1876 (H. Stevenson 

 in Z. 3rd S. i., 95) ; one killed on Breydon in winter 1824, possibly the 

 same as one of Mr. Miller's pair (Sir W. J. Hooker quoted in Stev. B. ofN. 

 ii., 442); one immature shot Sept. 4, and another Oct. 3, 1881 (J. H. 

 Gurney, jun. who has the former, in Z. 3rd S. v., 488, and H. Stevenson 

 vii., 318, 319) ; one, a bird of the year, obtained in Sept. 1882 (H. 

 Stevenson and Lowne in lift. C. B. !) a male shot at the same place 

 Sept. 7, 1883 (W. Lowne in Utt.). One immature shot at Hopton. 

 Sept. 29, 1881, swimming in a pond with ducks (J. H. Gurney in Z. 

 3rd S. v., 488, and H. Stevenson vii., 318). 



2. Three said by Mr. Farr to have been obtained at Benacre, Sept. 

 1853 ; the Editor of the Naturalist suspects that they were Grey 

 Phalaropes {Nat for 1853, 275). 



3. Two shot at Aldeburgh, Oct. 26, 1881 (H. Stevenson in Z. 3rd S. 

 vii., 319, from Hele in Field); one from this place killed in Nov. about 

 1879 after a heavy gale, in Mr. V. H. Crewe's Collection (V. H. Crewe 

 in Utt). One shot at Hollesley in autumn 1871, by Mr. Threadkill, of 

 Ipswich, who has the bird (Haward MS.). 



4. One shot at Needham Market, Nov. 1877 (preserved by Bilson). 



West Suffolk. 



6. One killed early in Dec. 1881 on a pond at Acton (from W. 

 Garrard, in my Collection, C. B.). 



7. An immature bird shot on Lakenheath Fen Nov. 28, 1860 (S P. 

 Saville in Z. 7316). 



Months. — June, September, October, November, Decem- 

 ber. 



Districts.— I, 2 ?, 3, 6, 7. 



Although this bird has been found in several parts of 

 Suffolk distant from one another, it must be regarded as rare 

 in all. Very few have been met with except in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Yarmouth. A spring and autumn migrant, 

 occurring more usually in this county and in Norfolk in the 

 autumn than in the spring. 



