200 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



Fam. Podicipedid^;.* 



Great Crested Grebe, Podicipes cristatus (L.). 



S. and W. Cat. 50. — Spald. List, xxxviii. Found on 

 the Broads, particularly those which are shallow. — Graves 

 Brit. Orn. iii. (Lond. 1821). Extremely common on the 

 Suffolk Broads. (This expression of Graves, as Mr. Gurney 

 and Mr. Stevenson suggest, seems too strong, C. B.). 



East Suffolk. 



1. Yarmouth, common on the Broads (Paget Y., 12); a male and 

 female from thence (Newcome Collection); one shot at Yarmouth April 

 20, 1850 (Dennis MS. note in Yarrell); four shot near there in 1851 

 (Richard Strangwayes in Z. 3117); five killed Oct. 1880, and another 

 immature Feb. 6, 1881 (H. Stevenson in Z. 3rd S. vi., 373, and vii., 

 315). Nestlings shot on Breydon Sept. 1871 (Booth Cat. B. 194). 

 Breeds on Fritton Decoy (S. and W. Cat. 50); has done so within Mr. 

 Spalding's recollection (F. Spalding MS.); a pair killed there (Lot 275 

 in Mr. Spalding's Sale); several seen there in Oct. 1879 (J. H. Gurney, 

 jun. in Z. 3rd S. iv. 22), and again in April and May 1880 (H. Stevenson 

 in Z. 3rd S. vi., 369). Mutford (Freeman v.v.). 



2. Westleton, rare (Spalding). Very scarce of late years about Alde- 

 burgh; nearly all the specimens have been immature, only one mature 

 example taken possessing a crest; immature birds obtained Nov. 1, 

 1862, Jan. and March 1864, in winter 1864-5, and in summer 1882 

 (Hele, AM., 161 j T. Lister in Z. 3rd S., viii., 67). A splendid 

 adult bird shot on the Aide close to Slaughden Quay, Aug. 15, 1870 (J. 

 G. Tuck in Z. 2nd S. 2368). Shot on the Sudbourn Hall Estate, in 

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



3. Woodbridge River, killed in 1846 by Goodwin, in the possession of 

 Mr. Hill en (Carthew MS.); another preserved in the Seckford Reading 

 Room, "Woodbridge (E. Cobbold in litt, to whom it belongs, C. B. !). 

 Rare on the Orwell and Stour; two shot on the Orwell, Dec. 11, 1882 

 (Kerry MS. and in litt.). 



West Suffolk. 



5. One shot on the lake in Redgrave Park by Mr. Wilson, who has 

 seen others there (Wilson MS.); an immature bird brought to Mr. Creed, 

 from Redgrave in Feb. 1854 (Creed MS.). Shot at Eye by Mr. W. Clarke 

 (W. Clarke in litt.). 



* Prof. Newton observes to me that regard to euphony, but in utter disregard 



Podicipedidce is the true orthography. of Latin. Podicipes, Prof. Newton adds, 



Podiceps, tbc form commonly adopted by occurs inWillughby (Ornithologia, p. 257) 



modern authors, is a contraction of or and in Catesby Nat. Hist. Car. i., 91); 



misprint for Podicipes, used by Linnaeus I have accordingly ventured to restore it. 

 (Syst. Nat. Ed. 10, p. 136), possibly out of 



