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first week in July {id. in Z. 3rd S. vi., 370-1 ); a single bird seen there 

 for several days in the first week of Sept., and another Oct. 27 (id. in Z. 

 3rd S. vi., 372-3); five seen there at 4 a.m. May 19, 1881; four were 

 sleeping with heads thrown back and buried in their feathers, while one 

 apparently stood sentinel; about twenty large gulls were with them; a 

 single bird was seen there June 23; one shot in May 1882 {id. in Z. 3rd 

 S. vii., 317, and viii. 372). One stated by the late Mr. Thirtle to have 

 been killed (in the neighbourhood of Lowestoft) but no date recorded in 

 his MS. (Thirtle in litt, ) ; a magnificent adult couple, both females, 

 killed at one shot by Mr. Johnson, of Benacre Hall, between Lowestoft 

 and Southwold in May 1863 (Stev. B. of N. ii., 187, and in Z. 8691). 

 Four mentioned by Mr. Everitt as killed in 1874; probably in the neigh- 

 bourhood of North Cove (Creed in litt.). 



2. Benacre, Dec. 1854 (Creed MS.); another, shot by Mr. Durnford 

 Dec. 1866 (W. Bilson in Journ. of Suff. hist. 46) ; another in Jan. 1869, 

 in Lord Malmesbury's Collection (W. Hart and Son in Z. 2nd S. 1562). 

 Seen at Easton Broad in 1835 (Spald. u. s.). One shot at Southwold 

 Sept. 26 1868 (W. Gibson in Z. 2nd S. 1484). One shot at Thorpe 

 Mere Nov. 1829 (Acton in Loudon's Mag. N. H. iv. (1831) 163); again 

 in 1848, another immature Sept, 29, 1858 (E. Neave in Z. 6266); 

 one killed there in the winter of 1865-6, a pair seen (Bope MS.); 

 two seen June 25, 1868 {Field). Several instances have occurred near 

 Aldeburgh, mostly during the early summer and autumn ; sixteen are 

 enumerated by Mr. Hele (Hele, Aid., 115 and MS. ; see also Acton 

 for others in 1828, in Loudon's Mag. N. H. iv. (1831) 163); an adult 

 shot there by Mr. Fuller (Gr. Ransome in Z. 1692); one seen in July 

 1848 by Mr. W. H. Haward (F. W. Johnston in Z. 2229); another Oct, 

 12,1871 between Aldeburgh and Orford (H. R. Leach in Z. 2nd S. 

 2871); nine seen in the marshes June 1827, and two of them shot (F. 

 Kerry in Z. 3rd S. i., 343, 1525). Two killed at Orford May 21, 1881, 

 possibly part of the flock seen on Breydon (H. Stevenson in Z. 3rd. S. 

 vii., 317). 



3. Two shot in the neighbourhood of Woodbridge out of a flock of four 

 in May 1881, in Mr. Hillen's possession (W. H. M. Carthew in litt). A 

 pair shot at Hollesley Aug. 1881 (Asten v.v. C. B. !), four seen there 

 Aug. 1884, and two shot (J. J. H. Knights in Z 3rd S. viii., 471). A 

 pair shot at Bawdsey Ferry in ISrfl (G-. Newson in litt.). Has been 

 shot on the river Stour before 1824 (S. and W. u, s.), and another 

 more recently (Kerry MS.). Sir Thomas Browne says that in his time, 

 the seventeenth century, they built on the tops of high trees at Trimley, 

 and he adds " they come in March '' (Works iv., p. 315-6 Wilkin's Ed.) 



West Suffolk. 



8. A male bird killed near Norton Hall by Mr. Sturgeon in 1864 

 (Bilson in Journ. Suff. Inst. 46). A fine specimen shot near Bury St. 

 Edmund's, in Sir E Kerrison's Collection (W. Clarke in litt. C. B. !). 



