192 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



Macpherson in Z. 3rd S. vii., 16). Shot on the Sudbourn Hall Estate, 

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



3. Shot on the Woodbridge River (in the Collection of Mr. W. P. T. 

 Phillips). Common at Felixstowe (Kerry MS.). 



4. Shot on Bosmere Mere (H. Lingwood in Hit.). 



West Suffolk. 



5. Oakley, rare; in Sir Edward Kerrison's Collection (Clarke in lift). 



6. One killed on the moat at Kentwell Hall (in the Collection of 

 Capt. Bence; C. B. !). 



8. One driven by storm into a hovel near Clopton Hall, Rattlesden, 

 Feb. 1855, and kept for some time alive (Col. Parker v. v. and C. R. 

 Bree in Z. 4630). 



Months. — February, September, October, November, 

 December, and " the whole year.'' 



Districts.— 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8. 

 Common along the coast in the winter, more rarely 

 found in autumn ; very few examples have been taken 

 far inland. 



Velvet Scoter, (Edemia Jusca (L.). 



S. and W. Cat. 57. A rare species, but has been some- 

 times killed in Suffolk. — Spald. List xxxviii. — E. Blyth in 

 Nat. for 1838, p. 420. Two procured by Mr. Hoy in 

 Suffolk in a very emaciated state in the severe frost of 



1837-8. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Yarmouth; occasionally shot in hard winters, several in the very 

 severe one of 1829-80 (Paget, Y. 11); a female shot there Nov. 14, 

 1859, another Feb. 3, 1881 (H. Stevenson in Z. 6806 and 3rd S. vii., 

 326). A male bird taken at Lowestoft, preserved by Thirtle (Newcome 

 Collection). 



2. Mr. Everitt mentions it as occurring occasionally at sea off Easton 

 (Creed in ML). One at Halesworth in 1837 (Bilson MS.). Killed on 

 Lord Hunting-field's Suffolk Estate, in his Collection (Lord Huntingfield 

 in ML). One shot by Mr. Fuller at Aldeburgh about 1847 (G. Ransome 

 in Z. 1693); another sent from that place to Mr. Haward in Jan. 

 1848 (Haward MS. and F. W. Johnson in Z. 2067); it has very rarely 

 been met with in a mature condition about Aldeburgh, the immature 

 female, first taken in Oct. 1863, is not nearly as rare as the male, of 

 which last one was taken in Oct. 1864, and another, mature, in Feb. 1870; 

 a female was taken in Jan. 1864, and two more in the winter of 1864-5 

 (Hele, Aid., 155). 



