CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



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female taken Aug. 1850, the male Aug. 1858 (Bury Museum); a female 

 in full summer plumage killed there May 1859, in Capt. Longe's 

 Collection (Stev. B. of N. ii. 251); a pair in immature plumage 

 killed Sept. 4, 1862 (H. Stevenson in Z. 8330); an immature bird 

 Aug. 22, 1863, in the Collection of the Rev. C. J. Lucas; four immature 

 specimens said to have been killed at Yarmouth in Aug. 1864 ; one 

 in Mr. Stevenson's Collection ; another adult on Jan. 10, 1866 

 (Stev. B. ofN. ii., 251); and one shot Sept. 1872 (H. Stevenson and 

 J. H. Gurney, jun. in Z. 2nd S., 3319). Common about Breydon 

 (Paget Y. 8); a young male shot there Aug. 12, 1872 (H. Stevenson 

 and J. H. Gurney, jun in Z. 2nd S. 3317); another young bird from a 

 marsh near Breydon Sept. 5, 1873 (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd S. 3859 

 from J. E. Harting), and a male and two females in unusually perfect 

 summer plumage shot April 27, 1875 (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd S. 4631) 



2. Mr. Spalding shot one at Easton Broad (Spald. u. s.). Westleton, 

 rare (Spalding MS.). A few seen in Thorpe Mere, Aug. 1871, one of them 

 taken (J. G. Tuck in Z. 2nd S., 2804). Annually at Aldeburgh in 

 autumn (Kerry MS.), several seen there and four killed in Aug. 1877 

 (J. G. Tuck in Z. 3rd S. i., 496). Two specimens obtained above 

 Slaughden Aug. 29, 1863 (Hele, Aid., 121). Shot on Sudbourn Hall 

 Estate (in Sir R. Wallace's Collection C. B. !). 



3. Woodbridge district, grey and red forms, in possession of Mr. 

 Cooke (Carthew MS.); one from Woodbridge River (in Mr. W. P. 

 T. Phillips's Collection).* 



Formerly bred. 



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

 October. 



Districts. — 1, 2, 3. 



Occurs much more rarely than the preceeding. Does 

 not breed, although formerly it appears to have done so (see 

 Stev. B. ofN. ii., 249-250). 



Curlew, Numenius arquatus (L.). 



S. and W. Cat. 42. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Yarmouth, very common (Paget, Y. 8). Always plentiful on the 

 Breydon muds (Stev. B. of N. ii., 196). Lowestoft, not rare (Freeman 

 v.v.). 



2. Some obtained at South wold Aug. 1871 (H. Dumford in Z. 2nd S. 



* Mr. Stevenson thinks that "Whelp T. Browne's time (Stev. B. of N. ii. 252). 



Moor, near Lakenheath, probably derived It is not now, I believe, found inland in 



its name from this species which was Suffolk, 

 known by the name of Yarwhelp in Sir 



