CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 21 3 



Districts. — 1, 2. 

 The above notices of this rare Tern are so meagre that 

 it is impossible to feel any confidence that it has occurred 

 in Suffolk. There seems to be only a single authenticated 

 specimen hitherto met with in Norfolk (H. Stevenson in 

 litt.). 



Sandwich Tern, Sterna cantiaca (Gmelin). 



S. and W. Cat. 51. — Spald., List, xxxviii. Summer 

 visitor. 



East Suffolk. 



1. Has been killed at Yarmouth (S. and W. u. s.) ; not uncommon 

 there (Paget Y., 12); a female from Yarmouth May 4, 1849 in the Dennis 

 Collection (Bury Museum, Dennis MS. note in Yarrell); one shot in 

 the neighbourhood in Oct. 1875 (H. Stevenson in Z. 2nd S., 4775). A 

 pair seen and the female shot on Breydon Sept. 8, 1880, and an adult 

 female shot Aug. 24, 1881 {id. in Z. 3rd S. vi., 372, and vii., 318). One 

 stated by the late J. F. Thirtle to have been killed (in the neighbour- 

 hood of Lowestoft) but no date recorded in his MS. (Thirtle in litt. ) ; 

 one was shot by Mr. Thirtle at Lowestoft in July 1856, and is probably 

 the same bird. Mr. Everitt mentions that one was killed Nov. 1874, 

 probably in the same neighbourhood (Creed MS.); an old male from 

 that place (Newcome Collection). 



2. Aldeburgh (James MS). 



8. A specimen from Woodbridge district preserved by Mr. Heffer 

 (Carthew MS. ) Two seen swimming in the Stour, April 1823, and one 

 shot (S. and W. u. s.). 



4. One obtained at Hoxne, in Sir E. Kerrison's Collection (Clarke 

 in litt). 



Was formerly "pretty common" on the Suffolk coast, 

 and bred there in June {Bewick ii., 212, Ed. 1832, from 

 Latham) . 



Months. — April, June, July, August, September, October, 

 November. 



Districts. — 1, 2, 3, 4. 

 Found on or near the coast ; not common. 



Lessee Tern, Sterna minuta, L. 



5. and W. Cat. 51. 



East Suffolk. 

 1. Yarmouth, common (Paget Y., 13). Plentiful on Breydon Aug. 



