238 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



and November and the intervening months at 75, the 

 numbers of each sex being very nearly equal. To Suffolk 

 he assigns 8 male and 7 female birds. l< Judging from the 

 records " says Prof. Newton in his elaborate memoir in 

 the Ibis U.S.), "the number of birds, 69 or 70, [now 

 slightly increased] obtained in those two counties far exceeds 

 the number obtained in any other district of Europe of like 

 size." Mr. Stevenson's text is accompanied by a beautiful 

 coloured plate representing both the male and female birds. 

 " The true home of this bird is in the large sandy steppes 

 of Asia, where it is met with, as far east as China . . . 

 In the interior of Mongolia it is said to be so common that 

 the Cossack guard that convoys the missionaries to Pekin 

 live chiefly on these birds during the journey " (Dresser 

 B. of Eur. vii., 76 — 81). This bird was unknown in 

 Europe before 1853, when several examples were taken 

 on the Lower Volga ; but an invading host, which has been 

 estimated by Prof. Newton at 700 birds, visited various 

 countries of Europe in 1863 (Ibis for 1864, pp. 186, 216). 

 By the kindness of Prof. Newton and Mr. Bele I am able 

 to give an autotype of a male and also of a female bird 

 in the present work. The male in possession of the 

 former, was that caught at Elveden ; the female now in the 

 Ipswich Museum, was shot at Thorpe, and was formerly in 

 Mr. Hele's possession. 



Barbary Partridge, Perdix petrosa Virginian Colin, Ortyx virginianus 



(Gmelin). (L.). 



2. One shot at Sudbourn, on Lord 7. A male bird from Elvcdcn, killed 

 Hertford's estate, about 1840 ; it was about 1882, preserved by Ncwby (in my 

 supposed that a few eggs of this speeies Collection ; C. B.). Another trapped 

 had been introduced with those of the about nine miles from Bury St. Edmund's, 

 Red-legged Partridge, about 1770 (Yarrell August 1, 1871, probably from the same 

 First Swppl. to Br. B. 40, (1845) with neighbourhood (Bilson inlitt.). 



g e \ The Maharajah Duleep Singh has turned 



3. One killed at Freston (Harting out a good many of these North American 

 Handbook 129, from J. H. Gurney, birds, which accounts for specimens having 

 • U11 \ been obtained near Elveden; and perhaps 



4. One killed near Ipswich (id.). also for one from Suffolk, in possession of 

 7. A male killed at Elveden about 1882, Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun. (in litt.). 



preserved by No why (in my Collection ; For their first introduction into this 



q B \ country see Stev. B. of N. i., 436, and 



All 'these specimens must be regarded Harting Handbook, 130. 

 as introduced birds ; see Mr, J. H. Gurney, 

 jun., in Harting u.s. 



