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6. A fine specimen in winter plumage shot on the Stour, near Sudbury, 

 in the spring of 1838 (King, List, 128). 



7. Two old birds taken at West Row, Mildenhall, Dec. 1883 (Howlett 

 v.v.); one immature shot there Nov. 1884 (id., C. B.!). 



8. Livermere, where it is now protected and breeds (James MS.). A 

 full-grown specimen taken at Ampton, March 26, 1883, where it nested 

 the same year; another March, 1884. A male bird picked up alive near 

 Bury St. Edmund's, March 30, 1878 (L. Travis in lift, C. B.!). Taken 

 at Timworth April 19, 1884 (L. Travis v.v.). Nested at Barton Mere 

 in 1883 (H. Jones v.v. ). 



Breeds. 



Months. — January, February, March, April, May, August, 

 September, October, November, December. 

 Distriets.—l, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8. 



Found not uncommonly on the Broads and lakes in the 

 spring ; more rarely by the sea-side. It has been met with 

 at nearly all times of the year. 



Ked-necked Grebe, Podicipes rubricollis (Gmelin). 



S. and W. Cat. 50. Spald. List, xxxviii. Catalogued 

 only. 



Fast Suffolk. 



1. Yarmouth very rare, three shot in Jan. 1828 (Paget Y., 12) ; one 

 shot near that place, in Mr. Wigg's possession (S. and W. u. s.); another 

 in the British Museum (from Mr. Gould's Collection); procured in 

 breeding plumage in April 1848 (J. H. Gurney and W. R. Fisher 

 in Z. 2185); a male bird shot in June 1852, and a female in 1854 (Bury 

 Museum) ; rather plentiful in the neighbourhood of Yarmouth in Feb. 

 and March 1865; upwards of thirty were killed, chiefly adult birds, 

 (T. E. Gunn in Nat. (1865) 29-30 and H. Stevenson in Z. 9575); a fine 

 bird with reddish throat shot there Oct. 9, 1870 ; a female changing 

 from summer to winter plumage Sept. 28, 1871, and another specimen 

 in Jan. 1877 (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd S. 2497, 2833, and 3rd S.i., 431); 

 a very fine adult bird from Yarmouth in Mr. Gurney's Collection ( J. 

 H. Gurney v.v., C. B. !). Shot by Hurr on Breydon about the summer 

 of 1859 (in Mr. Combe's Collection, C. B. !); an immature bird shot 

 there Aug. 1873 (Booth Gat. B. 217); and one in winter plumage, date 

 not recorded (J. H. Gurney, jun. in litt., who has it). 



2. A bird in moult taken in a sprat-net at Southwold Nov. 1864 (H. 

 V. Remnant in litt). A fine specimen shot on Thorpe Mere, in Nov. 

 1 878 ; not very common in the neighbourhood (F. M. Ogilvie in Z. 3rd 

 S. iii., 265). About Aldeburgh, always obtained in an immature state, 

 and in the winter; one taken in 1864, and another in Feb. 1870 (Hele, 



