CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 1 89 



Golden Eye, Clangula glaucion (L.). 



S. and W. Cat. 58. — Spald. List, xxxviii. Catalogued 

 only. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Yarmouth, not uncommon (Paget Y. 11) ; a fine adult male killed 

 there in the winter of 1862; (in Mr. J. H. Gurney's Collection, C.B. !) ; 

 two other male birds sent from this place Jan. 1873 ; four male birds 

 shot there, Feb. 1878 (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd S. 3559, and 3rd S. iii.. 

 154). A young male shot on Breydon Dec. 13, 1819 (Whitear's Diary, 

 251); an adult male bird shot on Breydon, in Mr. Combe's Collection 

 (C. B. !); a few seen there Dec. 1874; a male bird shot there Jan. 12, 

 1875; some seen in Jan., 1876 (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd S. 4368, 4629, 

 4893); adult females shot Dec. 19, 1880 and Dec. 1881 (id in Z. 3rd S. 

 vi., 375 and vii., 327); and another female Dec. 1882, in my Collection, 

 C. B. ! (G-. Smith in litt.). 



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

 (Freeman v.v.). Killed on Lord Huntinofield's Estate, in his Collection 

 (Lord Huntingfield in litt, C. B. !) Westleton, rare (Spalding MS.). A 

 small female bird shot at Leiston Nov. 23, 1872, and a flock of twelve 

 seen there Jan. 3, 1873, three of which were adult males; others 

 were seen later (G. T. Rope in Z. 2nd S. 3607-3608). One seen 

 at Marsh Pool, Blaxhall, in winter 1866 and on Jan. 6, 1867 (Rope 

 MS.). One seen on Thorpe Mere near Aldeburgh, Oct. 1868 (A. Clark- 

 Kennedy in Z. 2nd S. 1697); the immature bird is tolerably common 

 about Aldeburgh during the winter, mature males have been obtained 

 near Iken (Hele, Aid., 158, see also Acton in Loudon's Mag. N. H. iv., 

 1831, 163); eight young ones seen in the river at Iken Nov. 1868, and 

 three killed in Feb. 1869 in the reaches of the Aide between Iken and 

 Snape (A. Clark-Kennedy in Z. 2nd S. 1698 and 1859), and a flock seen 

 during the severe frost in 1870 (Rope MS.). Shot on the Sudbourn 

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



3. A few, mostly immature, driven by a sharp frost into the Wood- 

 bridge River some days after Christmas in 1868-9 (A. Clark- Kennedy 

 in Z. 2nd S. 1858); one from thence (in the Collection of Mr. W. P. T. 

 Phillips). Common on the Orwell and Stour; a specimen taken on the 

 Orwell in 1878 (Kerry MS. and Podd v.v.). 



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

 Lingwood in litt.). 



West Suffolk. 



5. One shot at Redgrave (Wilson M S.). Oakley, occasionally (in Sir E. 

 Kerrison's Collection, (W. Clarke in litt.). Great Finborough (J. Nichols 

 in Loudon's Mag. N. S. iv. (1831) 449). 



6. A male shot on the pond at Melford Hall, Nov. 1881 (Sir W. 

 Parker in litt.). Several seen in the neighbourhood of Sudbury in 



