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at Leiston in great numbers in 1877 (Rope), by the pond in 

 Wherstead Park (F. B. Zincke); at Thetford (F. Norgate 

 in litt.), at Tuddenham Fen (Lord Bristol's keeper v.v.); on 

 Eisby Heath, the nest being a mile and a half distant from 

 the nearest constant water (C. A, Abraham in lilt.)', at 

 Bougham and at Bushbrooke (A. Parish v.v.); at Drink- 

 stone (Capt. Powell); at Clopton Hall, among rock- work 

 in Col. Parker's garden, the eggs being found at the end 

 of a concealed cavity (C. B. !). This is the only duck 

 which can at all be regarded as common in the county 

 generally. 



Gadwall, Anas slrepera (L.). 



S. and W. Cat. 56. Not common in this part of the 

 country. — Spaid. List, xxxviii. Bare. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Sent from Yarmouth in 1848 (in the Bury Museum); two shot 

 there by E. T. Booth, Esq., Nov. 1881 (G. Smith in litt.). Two or 

 three generally shot every year on Breydon (Paget, Y. 11); three 

 immature birds shot there Sept. 1881, they were very tame and were 

 with an old drake which escaped (J. H. Gurney, jun. in Z. 3rd S. v., 

 487); one shot there about Dec. 1881 (in Mr. Combe's Collectiou, C. B.!). 

 Has been found on Fritton (Hunt in Stacey's Hist of Norfolk p. lxiii., 

 Norwich 1829). 



2. Two female birds obtained at Aldeburgh and Thorpe, one in Feb. 

 1868, the other Jan. 1870, and another in the neighbourhood Dec. 1868 

 (Hele, Aid., 153, and A. Clark- Kennedy in Z. 2nd S. 1699). Aldeburgh 

 (James MS.); an immature bird purchased in a poulterer's shop in the 

 summer of 1883 (T, Lister in Z. 3rd S. viii., 67). 



4. A female taken near Ipswich in 1856 (H. Lingwood in litt). 



West Suffolk. 



5. Three (including both sexes) shot at Thornham in 1880 (Lord 

 Henniker v.v.). 



6. A female shot about 1836, on the Stour at Cornard, in Mr. King's 

 Collection (King, List, 128). 



Months.— January, February, September, November, 

 December. 



Districts. — 1, 2, 4, 5, 6. 



Has occurred but rarely in Suffolk and then almost 

 always near the sea. It is included in the earliest list of 



