CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 161 



East Suffolk. 



1. Yarmouth, not uncommon (Paget, Y. 7) ; one killed near that 

 place Jan. 15, 1873 (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd B. 3559); another Jan. 15, 

 1877 {id. in Z. 3rd S. i., 431); a fine specimen Jan. 23, 1878 {id. in Z. 3rd 

 S. iv., 336), and one Feb. 13, 1880 (T. E. Gunn in Z. 3rd. S. iv., 52); 

 another Feb. 9, 1881 (H. Stevenson in Z. 3rd. S. vii., 315). Not very 

 uncommon at the Burgh end of Breydon (Stev. B. of N. ii., 170). An 

 immature male shot at Lound Nov. 24, 1882 (W. Lowne in litt.). 

 One shot on the Oulton marshes, Dec. 3, 1884 {Loivestoft Journal). A 

 fine specimen killed at Lowestoft Jan. 7, 1873 (H. Stevenson in Z. 

 2nd S. 3558). One killed at Beccles in Nov. 1876 {id. in Z. 3rd S. i., 97). 

 Three fine birds were put up by Col. Leathes at the same moment on 

 Barnaby Broad in 1873 ; one was shot by the Rev. J. F. Reeve, who 

 has it ; (Leathes in litt.); he has another shot there many years before 

 (Reeve in litt.) ; a female was obtained there in 1879 (Freeman v. v.). 



2. A fine old male shot at Benacre Jan. 13, 1865, and a young male 

 shot there Feb. 6 the same year (T. E. Gunn in Young England 

 (Newspaper) iv. 111). Southwold, Dec. 27, 1879 (Freeman v. v.). One 

 flushed from reeds near the sea-wall at Leiston Dec. 1879; another had 

 been shot near the same spot about twenty years before (G. T. Rope in Z. 

 3rd S. iv., 68-9). A rare visitor about Aldeburgh, occurring usually in 

 winter; specimens were obtained in I860, 1861, and 1868, the last, a pair, 

 killed in the fen at Thorpe (Hele, Aid., 115) ; one seen in the Cor- 

 poration Marshes, May 1881 by Mr. Duncan Parker, it rose about 

 fifteen yards from him and settled down again very shortly (D. Parker 

 v.v.); North Warren, Aldeburgh (James MS.); one taken at Aldeburgh 

 early in 1868 (Rope MS.). Shot on Sudbourn Hall estate, in Sir R. 

 Wallace's Collection (C. B. !). Thirteen shot and one taken by a dog 

 within ten miles of Orford in Jan. 1848 (H. Lingwood in litt, who has 

 one of them); one shot at Orford is in the Seckford Reading Room, 

 Woodbridge (E. Cobbold in litt. to whom it belongs). 



3. Rendlesham Estate, in Lord Rendlesham's Collection (C. B. !). 

 Three shot near Woodbridge Dec. 1830; one seen in April 1860, flying 

 a good height past Great Bealings Rectory, and one seen Dec. 30, 

 1830 at Kesgrave by Mr. Moor (Moor MS). One killed flying over 

 from the sea near Bawdsey Ferry in winter 1880 (Newson in litt). 

 Shot by J. B.Taylor at Walton Dec. 11, 1846 (G. Ransome in Z. 

 1693). " One killed at East Bergholt, Feb. 3, 1871 {Ipswich Journal). 



4. Mr. Clarke remembers two being shot at Syleham in one day (W. 

 Clarke in litt). One shot at Needham Market Jan. 1871 {Ipswich 

 Journal). Bramford, rare (Haward MS.). A fine specimen shot in 

 Jan. 1867 at Whitton {Field, Jan. 19, quoted in Z. 2nd S. 634). 

 Several obtained near Ipswich in the severe weather of 1846, and several 

 more in the beginning of 1848 (F. W. Johnson in Z. 1637, 2066). 



West Suffolk. 



5. One or two killed on fen-lands near Redgrave some years ago 



