156 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OP SUFFOLK. 



Formerly bred, but has not been known to do so for 

 about two centuries. 



Months. — January, March, April, May, June, July, 

 August, September, October, November, December. 



Districts. — 1, 2, 3, 8. 



This fine bird has probably rarely visited us of late years 

 without being recorded. Much the greater number during the 

 last sixty years have been observed in spring and summer ; 

 though Messrs. Sheppard and Whitear say that it was 

 generally met with in the winter. If it were not molested, 

 it would probably breed with us as it used to do in Sir 

 Thomas Browne's time. 



Fam. CicoNimE. 



White Stork, Ciconia alba, Bechstein. 



S. and W. Cat 38. — Spald. List, xxxvii. 



East Suffolk. 



1. A Stork seen about Yarmouth by Mr. Penrice and Mr. Bonfellow 

 in the autumn of 1810 (Paget, Y. 8; Stev. B. of N. ii., 178); one 

 shot there April 1815 (Cambridge Museum ) ; another adult shot near that 

 place in 1842, in the Norwich Museum (Stev. u. s., 179, J. H. Gurney, 

 and W. R. Fisher); one said to have been killed in Jan. 1852 (L. H. 

 Irby in Z. 3476); and an immature specimen in Feb. 1852, sent to 

 Norwich for preservation (Stev. u. s. 180); a fine specimen in 1858, 

 bought in the flesh by Mr. F. A. Sealy (now in the Collection of the 

 Rev. C. J. Lucas); one shot about May 1873, supposed to be the bird 

 seen rather earlier at Leiston (G. T. Rope MS.); and one sent to 

 Norwich from Yarmouth in May 1878 (H. Stevenson in Z. 3rd. S. iii., 

 155). A pair seen at Gorleston, and one killed a few years before 1824 

 (S. and W. u. s.). An adult female killed on Breydon June 7, 1848 (J. 

 H. Gurney and W. R. Fisher in Z. 2291 ; Stev. B. of N. ii., 180); an 

 adult male about March 15, 1852 (L. H. Irby in Z. 3476) ; another, 

 an old male, in June 1865 (T. E. Gunn in Nat. for 1865, 108); a pair 

 seen in May and June and at length killed near Burgh Castle in July 

 1817, and another in the following Nov. (Stev. u. s. 179, and S. and 

 W. u. s. ) 



2. One seen at Leiston in the marshes May, 1873, too wary to be 

 approached (G. T. Rope in Z. 2nd S. 3580); another seen there in 1877 

 (id. MS.). A single specimen seen in the winter of 1860-61 by the 

 river between Snape and Slaughden ; another seen at Thorpe ( Hele, 



