212 CATALOGUE! OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



Breeds. 



Months. — May, July, August, September. 

 Districts. — All. 



A summer visitant, common or tolerably common along 

 the whole length of the coast ; and met with, not very un- 

 frequently, inland at great distances from the sea. 



Arctic Tern, Sterna hirundo, L. 



East Suffolk. 



1. A specimen from Yarmouth (in the British Museum, Gray, Gat. 

 241). A mature male shot on Breydon Aug. 15, 1880, preserved by 

 Lowne, in my Collection (C. B.); plentiful on Breydon, Aug. 1881 (H. 

 Stevenson in Z. 3rd S. vii., 325). Four shot at Lowestoft by Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney, jun. in 1857 or 1858 {in litt); abundant there and one taken 

 in Oct. 1879 (J. H. Gurney, jun., in Z. 3rd S. iv., 22). 



2. An old and a young bird shot at sea off Benacre Sluice Aug. 

 1873 (Booth Gat. B. 105). Aldeburgh, abundant (Hele, Aid., 169) ; 

 seen between Aldeburgh and Orford May 25, 1869 ; (A. Clark-Kennedy 

 in Z. 2nd S., 1862). Very numerous Aug. 1872, on the shingle about 

 the High Light near the Ness, Orford, where they had seemed to have 

 bred, a very young bird apparently of this species being obtained (H. 

 Durnford in Z. 2nd S., 3308). 



West Suffolk. 



6. A pair killed on Friar's Meadow, Sudbury, in or before 1843, in 

 the Sudbury Museum (T. B. Hall in Z., 342). 



Supposed to have bred. 



Months. — May, August, October. 



Districts. — 1, 2, 6. 



Less common than the preceding, to which it is very 

 nearly allied, but always to be distinguished from it by its 

 shorter tarsus ; though records of flocks of both are to be 

 received with caution, as they can hardly be distinguished 

 on the wing. 



* Roseate Tern, Sterna Dougallii, Montagu. 

 Spald. List, xxxix. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Mr. Youell has known this to be shot at Yarmouth (Paget F., 13). 



2. Orford (Spald. u. s.). 



