190 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OP SUFFOLK. 



the winter of 1837-8, a fine male in Mr. King's possession shot with 

 another at Cornard (King, List, 128). 



7. Killed near Thetford (Newby in litt). Elveden (Cambridge 

 Museum). 



8. Livermere, shot by Fakes (James MS.); two from this place, in 

 possession of Mr. Okeden ( L. Travis in litt.), and another, an immature 

 female (in my Collection, C. B.). 



Months. — January, February, October, November, Decem- 

 ber. 



Districts. — All. 



A winter visitant not very uncommon near the coast, more 

 rare inland ; mature birds are less frequent. Mr. Clark- 

 Kennedy often watched these birds in the river near Iken, 

 and found by repeated daily observations that they dived 

 continually, but were never all under water at the same 

 time, always leaving one bird to keep watch for the others, 

 in about a minute this bird would be relieved by another, 

 who would give the next duck a peck to remind him when 

 it was his turn to take the duty of sentinel (in Z. 2nd S. 

 1698 ; see also S. and W. u. s~). It is known by the name 

 of Kattlewing or Battler at Yarmouth (Whitear's Diary ^ 

 252). 



Long-tailed Duck, Harelda glacialis (L.). 



S. and W. Oat. 57. Visits our shores and rivers in 

 severe winters. — Spald. List xxxviii. Considered a rare 

 bird. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Yarmouth, very rare (Paget, Y. 11) ; in the winter of 1819-20 

 they were unusually numerous, particularly at Yarmouth, many were 

 killed ( S. and W. u. s.) ; a male bird in full plumage shot at or near 

 that place (not later than 1829), in possession of the Rev. C. Penrice 

 (Hunt in Stacey's Hist, of Norfolk, lxiii.), several fine old males killed 

 there in Jan 1859, an immature female in Oct. 1870, others immature 

 Oct. 20, 1878 and Jan. 12, 1880; an immature female shot in the neigh- 

 bourhood, Oct. 22, 1881, an early date (H. Stevenson in Z. 7389; 2nd 

 S. 2497; 3rd S. iv., 339; vi., 375 and vii., 327). Shot on Breydon in 

 hard winters (Paget, Y. 11). Taken in the decoy at Herringfleet (S. 

 and W. u. s.). Lowestoft (Freeman v. v.). 



2. A fine young bird killed at Aldeburgh about 1846, in Mr. John- 

 son's Collection (F. W. Johnson in Z. 1637); an immature bird taken 



