CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 185 



Garganey, Querquedula circia (L.). 

 S. and W. Cat. 56. — Spald. Listj xxxviii. Eare. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Yarmouth, not uncommon ; occasionally breeds (Paget, Y. 11) ; 

 a specimen killed near Yarmouth June 2, 1820 (S. and W. Cat. 57); 

 a pair sent from this place (in the Bury Museum) ; a young male seen 

 there by Mr. Stevenson Sept. 29, 1880 (H. Stevenson in Z. 3rd S. vi., 

 375). A beautiful pair shot at Gunton March 25, 1870 (H. Stevenson 

 in Z. 2nd S. 2364). A male bird shot at Bungay about 1842 (in 

 possession of Mr. J. W. Clarke, Bury St. Edmund's). 



2. Benacre or Easton Broad (Spalding's Sale ; Lot 358). At least one 

 pair bred at Leiston in 1873, the bird was seen in June, July, and 

 the beginning of Aug. ; a nest found there April 28, 1874, containing 

 several eggs, the old birds were seen ; bred again in the reedland in 

 1877 (G. T. Eope in Z. 2nd S. 3868 and 4036 and MS.). Two 

 immature males killed on the Aide, Aug. 8, 1872 ; and a young male 

 killed at Thorpe, the same clay, out of a flock of about a dozen (Hele, 

 MS.); seven eggs taken in the fen in May 1875 by Messrs. Hele, 

 Moor, and F. Spalding ; the male bird was afterwards found dead near 

 the spot (F. Spalding in MIL). Aldeburgh (James MS.); three shot 

 there Aug. 1872 (J. G-. Tuck in Z. 2nd S. 3306-7). An immature 

 female shot above Slaughden in Aug. 1865 (Hele, Aid., 154). 



3. Woodbridge Kiver (in Mr. Phillip's Collection). 



West Suffolk. 



5. Five shot inWortham Fen in the autumn of 1852 (Creed MS.). 

 Redgrave (Wilson MS.). Oakley, rare (W. Clarke in Utt). 

 7. Killed near Thetford (New by in Utt). 



Breeds. 



Months. — April, May, June, July, August, September. 



Districts. — 1, 2, 3, 5, 7. 

 A rare summer visitant, found principally near the 

 coast and occasionally breeding. 



Pochaed, Fuligula ferina (L.). 



S. and W. Cat. 58. 



East Suffolk. 

 1. Yarmouth, common (Paget, T. 11); young birds (nestlings) 



* A Teal was flushed by a sportsman contain in addition to four or five Teal's 

 from her nest among marram-grass on the eggs, as many of the Red-legged Partridge 

 Bandhills at Dunwich, and it was found to (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd S. 2869). 



