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2. One taken at Holton in June, 1824, preserved in the Leverian 

 Museum at Ely (E. Bidwell in Hit. from Cat. of Leverian Museum at 

 Ely). One taken some years before 1846 at South wold (J. H. Gurney 

 and W. R. Fisher in Z. 1315) ; Prof. Newton has not been able to trace 

 it (Yarrell's Br. B. by Newton, ii., 331 note); perhaps the same as the 

 Holton bird (C.B.). 



West Suffolk. 



5. Sir Edward Kerrison informed Prof. Newton that he has had a 

 specimen in bis possession for about forty years, which he believes to 

 have been killed in Oakley Park (Yarrell's Br. B. by A. Newton, ii., 

 331 note). 



Alpine Swift, Cypselus melba, Illiger. 



East Suffolk. 



1 An immature specimen shot at the back of Breydon Wall, Sept. 9, 

 1872 ; now in Mr. Gurney's Collection (H. Stevenson and J. H. Gurney, 

 jun., in Z. 2nd S. 3319, 5046). 



2. One captured in a room at the Brudenhall Hotel at Aldeburgh, 

 Sept. 8, 1870, in possession of Mr. Greenwood, of Aldeburgh ; another 

 seen at the same time (Trans. Norf. and Nonv. Nat. for 1872-3, 117, 

 and N. F. Hele in Z. 2nd S. 2344 from Field). 



7. Shot at Wickham brook, June 1881 (Tearle MS., Bury Free Press 

 July 2nd, 1881). 



8. One shot by Mr. J. Thirtle on the Angel Hill, Bury St. Edmund's, 

 about 1835 (Bilson in Journ. Suff. hist. 46, and MS.). 



Pallas's Sand Grouse, Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Pallas). 



East Suffolk. 



1. A female shot at Yarmouth June 20, 1863, in Mr. Newcome's 

 Collection (H. Stevenson in Z. 8712). A female shot on Breydon June 

 8,1863, seen along with a flock of Grey Plovers; its crop contained 

 seeds of Medkago minima, Chenopodium album, Polygonum convolvulus 

 (or some Rumex ?), and Poa annua. At Kessingland a female was 

 killed June 24, 1863, out of a flock of twelve or fourteen which had 

 been in the neighbourhood for a fortnight before; about the last week in 

 July a flock of fifty or sixty birds, supposed to be of this species, were 

 seen flying southward (H. Stevenson in Z. 8709, sqq. 8851; A. Newton 

 in Ibis for 1864, pp. 201, 202). 



2. Two males and a female killed at Walberswick June 5 and 6, 

 1863; a flock of about eighteen seen there at the same time, and two 

 smaller parties of seven and three; one of those killed was secured by 

 Sir J. Blois' gamekeeper (Stevenson in Z., u. s.; Newton, u, s.), the 

 other pair were in Spalding's Sale (Lot 368) and are now in Lord 

 Huntingfield's Collection (C. B. !). A male killed at Sizewell July 7, 

 1863 (Stevenson u. s. 8849; Newton u. s. 202). A covey of seven 



