1(58 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OP SUFFOLK. 



West Suffolk. 

 8. Shot on Thelnetham Fen some years ago (Sawbridge in litt.). 

 Month. — August. 



Districts. — I, 3, 8. 

 Very few specimens of this rare bird have been obtained 

 in this county. 



Little Crake, Crex pusilla (Gmelin). 



East Suffolk. 



1. Shot near Yarmouth in 1832; two in March 1833 by Mr. Richers, 

 in Mr. Hoy's Collection (J. D. Hoy in Loudon's Mag. N. H. vii. (1834) 

 53 ; Stev. B. of N. ii., 398); one killed at Yarmouth, in Mr. Doubleday's 

 Collection, bought by Mr. J. H. Guruey, jun. and given by him to 

 Mr. Stevenson (H. Stevenson in litt.). One killed on Oulton Broad 

 in 1830 (Lombe's MS. Notes quoted in Stev. B. of N. ii., 396). A bird 

 in Mr. Crickmore's Collection, supposed by Mr. Whitear to be of this 

 species, was killed in the river near Beccles ( Whitear' s Diary for 1819, 

 252, probably the same bird as that mentioned under Baillon's Crake.). 



Month. — March. 



District. — 1. 



Very like the preceding, but rather larger, and less 

 spotted; only one specimen, that from Oulton Broad, can 

 with certainty be counted on as having occurred in Suffolk. 



Mooehen, Gallinula chloropus (L.). 



S. and W. Cat. 48. 



Districts all, common everywhere and breeds. A very 

 small bird with an exceedingly brilliant shield caught at 

 Blaxhall, March 29, 1877 (G. T. Hope MS.). A white 

 variety killed at Butley (in Mr. W. P. T. Phillips's Collec- 

 tion); a "hairy" variety shot at Bramford, Dec. 16, 1847, 

 by Mr. Haward ; the webs of all the feathers were 

 disunited, and had the appearance of hair ( F. W\ Johnson 

 in Z. 2167; see Norf. and Norm. Nat. Trans, iii., 581). 

 An egg was found in a blackbird's nest by the brook at 

 Cockfield, May 1881 (W. Hustler, jun.); and a nest at 

 Culford, by Prof. Newton, in a fir tree above twenty feet 

 from the ground (Stev. B. oj N. ii., 416 note). This is the 

 only water bird which can be said to be really common in 

 every part of Suffolk. 



