CATALOGUE OP THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 179 



4. A pair shot at Blakcnham in the winter of 1859 or 1860, in 

 possession of Mr. Biddell, M.P. (C. B. !). 



West Suffolk. 



6. One shot near Cockfield Great Green, feeding out of a sheep's 

 trough, Dec. 13, 1878, doubtless an escaped bird (C. B. !). 



8. Ampton (L. Travis in Hit); two at Culford in 1876; two at 

 Ickworth in 1859 (Bilson MS.). One shot on the Rougham estate in 

 Oct. 1876, by Mr. Morris, in whose possession it is (C. B. !); a flock of 

 these birds seen about the same time in various parts of Suffolk, 

 probably escaped birds (see Bury and Suffolk Standard Oct. 24, 1876). 



Months. — January, February, April, May, July, August, 

 October, and December. 



Districts.— I, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8. 



This bird is admitted by Harting as an annual winter 

 visitant ; but is supposed in the Ibis List always to have 

 escaped from confinement (see also J. H. Gurney, jun. in 

 Mason's Hist. Norf. pt. iv). It has occurred not unfrequently 

 in various parts of the county, but, like the last species, it 

 is kept on many pieces of water, where it breeds. 



Shelduck, Tadorna vulpanser, Fleming. 



5. and W. Cat. 55. Mentions Norfolk only, — Spald. List, 

 xxxviii. Catalogued only. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Yarmouth, not uncommon (Paget, Y. 11), bred therein April 1844 

 (W. R. Fisher in Z. 654). Severaf killed at Breydon Jan. 1873, a few 

 there Aug. 1881 (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd S. 3559 and 3rd S. vii., 327). 

 Lowestoft, common, six or eight obtained in the winter of 1880 

 (Freeman v.v.). 



2. Easton (Spalding's Sale, Lots 346 and 358). Sir Thomas Gooch's 

 keeper told Mr. Spalding that it used to breed in old rabbit warrens by 

 Easton Broad. It occurs at Westleton (F. Spalding MS.). Has recently 

 bred at Dunwich (W. M. Crowfoot in litt. 1883). Very many were 

 killed in the winter of 1864 at Thorpe, some seen on a marsh at Leiston 

 Feb. 6 1873 ; one killed thereabout Oct. 1876 (G. T. Rope in Z. 2nd 

 S. 3608 and MS.). Two splendid males seen at Aldeburgh in May 

 1879; females reported to be sitting in rabbit burrows on the heath 

 where they used to breed regularly, as well as at Blackheath, Iken, and 

 Thorpe, a few years before 1870 (Hele, Aid., 151 and J. G. Tuck in 

 Z. 3rd S. iii., 302); two shot at Aldeburgh Sept 19, 1870; another 

 seen July 16, 1872 (J. G. Tuck in Z. 2nd S. 2369 and 3307). A 



