GATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 219 



Larus leucopterus " differs from L. glaucus only in being 

 smaller in size,'' and he proceeds to quote a letter from Mr. 

 Gatcombe who says exactly the same thing as Mr. J. H. 

 Gurney, jun., in the passage now to be cited : u There seems 

 to be every gradation in size between the Glaucous and 

 Iceland Gulls '' (J. H. Gurney, jun., in Mason's Norfolk, 

 pt. iv.); Mr. Gurney also writes : — " There are some inter- 

 mediate specimens from the East coast, which it is 

 exceedingly difficult to adjudicate upon, but I think it is 

 allowed now that the Iceland Gull is a more slender bird 

 with proportionately longer wings " (in litt.). Dr. Saxby 

 (B. of Shetl.j p. 336, quoted by Dresser, u. s. p., 442) 

 remarks that " it may be readily recognized by its acutely- 

 pointed and somewhat long wings," (see also Harvie-Brown 

 quoted in the same place). It thus becomes very difficult 

 to feel any confidence that the above specimens are correctly 

 named; that in the Newcome Collection seems to have 

 decidedly the best claim to be the true Iceland Gull, but 

 has not yet been thoroughly examined (Stevenson in litt). 

 The other specimens may probably only have been small 

 Glaucous Gulls. 



Herring Gull, Larus argentatus, Gmelin. 



S. and W. Cat. 52. Catalogued only. — Spald., List, 

 xxxix. Catalogued only. — Extremely numerous, flying 

 long distances from the sea in the winter of 1868-9 (A. 

 Clark-Kennedy in Z. 2nd S., 1858). 



East Suffolk. 



1. Yarmouth, rather rare (Paget Y., 13) ; one found dead between 

 that place and Lowestoft early in 1851 ; had choked itself by trying to 

 swallow a brown rat (J. 0. Harper, who had seen the bird alive the day 

 before, in Nat. for 1851, p. 165). Lowestoft, common (Freeman v.v.) ; 

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



2. Numerous at Leiston in Nov. 1872 (G. T. Rope in Z. 2nd S. 

 3606). Appears about Aldeburgh only in rough winter weather; a male 

 bird taken Feb. 1868 (Hele, Aid., 173); a specimen in Mr. Tuck's 

 Collection (Tuck v.v.) ; an old bird seen in Jan. 1879 (F. M. Ogilvie 

 in Z. 3rd. S. iii., 265). 



3. Rather rare on the Orwell and Stour (Kerry MS.). 



