206 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



Little Auk, Aha alle. L. 

 S. and W. Cat. 60. — Spald. List, xxxviii. Bather rare. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Occasionally shot in the Yarmouth Roads (Paget Y., 12) ; one 

 killed near that place, Nov. 1819 (Whitear's Diary, 253) ; an immature 

 female obtained there Nov. 24, before 1861 (Dennis MS. note in 

 Yarrell); one shot after a high wind in Nov., 1861 (H. Stevenson in 

 Z. 7845), and a female bird taken in a turnip field (Dennis Collection)* 

 One from Breydon (in Mr. W. P. T. Phillips' Collection). One taken 

 alive on the turnpike road at Gunton, in the possession of Mr. Leathes 

 (S. and W. u. s.). Mr. Creed saw one on the sea at Lowestoft in 1855 

 (Creed MS.); one picked up dead in the neighbourhood Nov. 1884 (H. 

 Stevenson in litt.), and another shot in Dec. 1884 (W. S. Everitt in litt.). 

 One shot near Beccles, by Hunt, before 1822 (Hunt's Brit. Ornith. iii., 

 17). 



2. One killed at Blaxhall, in Mr. Rope's Collection (Rope MS.). 

 Specimens obtained about Aldeburgh, in Nov. 1861 ; killed below 

 Slaughden Nov. 1867 and 1868 ; captured at Orford Nov. 1867; a male 

 bird in beautiful plumage Nov. 1871; taken again Dec. 1874, and in 

 the winter of 1878 (Hele, Aid., 164 and MS.; Podd v. v.), 



3. One picked up at Rendlesham some years ago; another knocked 

 down with a whip at Hollesley in 1850 (Carthew MS.). Shot at 

 Rushmere Dec. 18, 1846 by Mr. W. Chapman (G. Ransome in Z. 1693). 

 One shot on the Orwell; rare in the neighbourhood (Kerry MS.). Taken 

 at Cattawade (Brantham) in 1870 (L. Travis in lilt.). 



4. One taken alive at Ipswich in Nov. 1841, it died soon afterwards 

 (C. T. Townsend in Annals Nat. Hist. (1841 ) p. 317; see also pp. 394-5, 

 for remarks by Strickland) ; another found in an exhausted state near 

 that place about 1846, in Mr. Johnson's Collection (F. W. Johnson in 

 Z. 1637). 



West Suffolk, 



5. Has been killed at Eye (W. Clarke in litt). One found dead at 

 Haughley Oct. 1, 1870 (Creed MS.). 



6. One found alive by Mr. Branwhite at Shimpling in Nov. 1878; 

 another picked up at Newton near Sudbury by Mr. Hills in 1863 

 (J. F. Hills in litt., the latter given to me by him, C. B.). One picked 

 up alive about a mile from Sudbury Nov. 18, ] 861, it died in the course of 

 the day (S. King in Z. 7848); taken on the Stour at Cornard about the 

 end of 1882 (Hills v.v.); another shot by Mr. F. Tavlor, of Sudbury, on 

 the Stour near Great Cornard Church in Sept. 1883 (Hills in litt). 



7. Taken on the Suffolk side of Thetford (D. Newby in litt.). Elveden, 

 Dec. 1859 (Cambridge Museum). Herringfieet, taken by Messrs. Image 

 and Hammond (Hawkins MS.). Newmarket Heath, March 1874; two 

 others picked up there Jan. 1883 (Howlett v.v.). 



8. One taken in an exhausted state in a pig-yard at Broadmere, near 



