232 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



B. of N. i. 58; Gurney and Fisher in Z. 1769; C B. !) ; now in 

 possession of Mr. John Loder, Woodbridge (Loder in lilt). 



Little Owl, Athene noclua (Scopoli). 



East Suffolk. 



1. Very rare at Yarmouth, two specimens are well authenticated 

 (Paget, Y., 4); one taken alive on a fishing smack off Yarmouth in Jan. 

 1862, now in Mr. J. H. Gurney's Collection (H. Stevenson in Z. 7931; 

 J. H. Gurney, jun., in lilt.)] ' One killed at Oulton about 1877, by 

 striking the telegraph wires (Freeman v. v.). 



2. Killed at Holton about 1840 (Creed MS.). 



West Suffolk. 



5. One shot in Duchess Wood, Thornham, in Nov. 1874, in Lord 

 Henniker's Collection (Lord Henniker v.v. ; Clarke in lilt., who saw it 

 killed ; C.B. !). 



8. A female bird shot at Hengrave by Sir Thomas Gage's gamekeeper 

 in Feb. 1866 (Bilson in Journ. Stiff. Inst., 23, and Stevenson MS., 

 quoted in Harting's Handbook, 92); the same bird was seen by Mr. 

 Tuck, and is now in possession of Lady Gage (Tuck v.v.). Either this 

 or Tengmalm's Owl seen by Mr. W. G. Blake at Risby about 1860 ; he 

 has also seen one taken at Norton (W. G. Blake in liti). 



Scops Owl, Scops giu (Scopoli). 



A specimen supposed to be from Suffolk is in Mr. W. P. 

 T. Phillips's Collection (C. B. !). 



East Suffolk. 



] . Has occurred twice in the neighbourhood of Yarmouth (Gurney 

 and Fisher in Z. 1304). 



West Suffolk. 



5. A male bird taken by Mr. Felgate at Haughley Bushes in 1865, 

 and stuffed by Bilson ; it was for some time in Mr. Felgate's possession, 

 but he parted with it a few years ago to a gentleman in the North of 

 England (Bilson in Journ. Svff. Inst, 23, and in lilt. ; Felgate in lilt). 



8. One shot at Bougham in 1873 (Tearle MS. from Howlett). 



t For a specimen which escaped from destroyed, said to have been killed near 

 its cage at Yarmouth, and for another Yarmouth, purchased by Mr. Gurney 

 wrongly reported to have been shot near from the late Mr. Thirtle, then a nursery- 

 Yarmouth, see Dresser, B. of Eur. v. 358. man at Eaton (Stev. B. of N. i., 44) ; a 



more recent investigation of this bird does 



♦Mottled Owl, Scops asio (L.). not justify its retention in the list (id. in 



1. A specimen, now unfortunately White's florf). 



