186 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



mentioned as having occurred once at this place not later than 1818 

 (Whi tear's Diary 261). Fritton Lake (Leathes in litt); half-a-dozen 

 seen there in Oct. 1879 (J. H. Gurney, jun. in Z. 3rd S. iv., 22). 



2. Benacre or Easton Broad (Spalding's Sale, Lot 358). Westleton, 

 common (F. Spalding MS.). Several seen at Leiston Jan. 20, 1873, two of 

 them adult males (G. T. Rope in Z. 2nd S. 3608). Tolerably abundant 

 about Aldeburgh in severe weather; many have been obtained (Hele, Aid., 

 157, James MS.; see also T. Lister in Z. 3rd S. viii., 67). One shot on 

 the Orford River; preserved in the Seckford Reading Room, Woodbridge 

 (E. Cobbold in litt,, to whom it belongs). Shot on the Sudbourn Hall 

 Estate, in Sir R. Wallace's Collection (C. B. !). 



3. River Deben (in Mr. W. P. T. Phillip's Collection). Common on 

 the Orwell and Stour (Kerry MS.). 



4. Bramford, rare (Haward MS.). Shot on Bosmere Mere (H. Ling- 

 wood in litt). 



West Suffolk, 



5. Redgrave ("Wilson MS.). Oakley occasionally (W. Clarke in litt.)- 



6. Young male shot on a piece of water of half an acre at Lavenham, 

 by Mr. Biddell, Dec. 1875 (given to me by him, C. B.). 



8. One shot in the winter of 1876-7 at Clopton Hall, where it is 

 preserved (Col. Parker v.v.). 



Months. — January, October, December. 



Districts.— 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8. 



A tolerably common autumn and winter visitant ; young 

 birds, which the context shows to mean nestlings, are 

 recorded by Whitear; it now breeds abundantly in some 

 parts of West Norfolk, near the boundary line of the two 

 counties (A Newton in litt.). 



Ferruginous Duck, Fuligula ferruginea. (Gmelin). 



S. and W. Cat. 58. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Two specimens of this bird killed at different times in the neigh- 

 bourhood of Yarmouth, one in Mr. Wigg's possession (S. and W. u. s.); 

 preserved by Youell, and figured in Hunt Brit. Orn. ii. (see p. 341); 

 four obtained at Yarmouth in spring 1855, and one Dec. 1878 (H. 

 Stevenson in Z. 4704 and 3rd S. iii., 159). Has been shot on Breydon 

 but very rarely (Paget, Y. 11). Two immature birds obtained on 

 Oulton Broad (Freeman v.v.). Mr. Everitt shot one in Suffolk in 1866, 

 probably in the neighbourhood of North Cove (Creed in litt). One seen 

 at Easton Broad, within gunshot, Dec. 1884 (W. S. Everitt in litt.). 



2. One obtained at Iken, Jan. 7, ] 834 ; (J. H. Gurney jun., in litt.) 



