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Red-breasted Snipe, Macrorhamphus griseus (Gmelin). 



1. One killed near Yarmouth early in Oct. 1841; it was a male 

 which had nearly completed its change froin summer to winter plumage; 

 now in Mr. J. H. Guraey's Collection (Hoy in Ann. N. H. vi. (1841), 

 236; Stev. B. of N. ii., 349 ; C. B. !). 



Essentially an American bird ; most of its occurrences in 

 Europe have taken place in Great Britain (Dresser B. of 

 Eur. viii., 188). 



Esquimaux Curlew, Numenius borealis (Forster). 



2. One killed on the River Aide by Capt. Ferrand, some years 

 before 1870, not preserved (Hele, Aid., 177). 



3. Two obtained near Woodbridge, in Nov. 1852; one of them was 

 in possession of Mr. Hillen, and was sold by him to Mr. V. H. Crewe of 

 Theberton House (W. H. M. Carthew in lift.). Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., 

 compared this specimen with an American skin and felt quite satisfied 

 as to its authenticity; it had clearly been set up from the flesh (J. H. 

 Gurney in Hit). 



Found in North and South America, breeding only in the 

 Arctic regions (Dresser, B. of Eur. viii., 222). 



Black Stork, Ciconia nigra (L.). 



East Suffolk. 



1. A female obtained at Breydon June 27, 1877, photographed by 

 Gunn (J. H. Gurney in lift, and in Mason's Norfolk, pt. iv.). 



2. One shot in Oct. 1832 at Otley, it was not preserved (J. D. Hoy 

 in Loudon's Mag. N. E. vii. (1834) 53, from E. Acton who saw the 

 bird; Gould's Br. B. iv.); one killed at Grundisburgh in 1832, in 

 possession of Mr. Ditton, surgeon, of that place (Mr. Joseph Clarke 

 MS. quoted in Stevenson's B. of N. ii., 183); Mr. Stevenson thinks 

 these two are really the same bird. 



3. One shot by H. Upton Sept. 28, 1882, on the river Deben near 

 Woodbridge, preserved by Asten, in possession of Major Ernest Cobbold 

 of Ufford (T. Carthew in litt.; Field Oct. 7, 1882). 



West Suffolk. 



6. One shot by Mr. Frost-Mortimer (who has it), in a meadow in 

 Stoke-by-Nayland on the Suffolk side of the Stour in May 1881 ; it 

 measured seven feet across the wings, and its crop was full of gudgeons; 

 Col. Rowley had observed the bird going down the valley of the Stour 

 in its flight towards the sea, flying with the neck straight out (Frost- 

 Mortimer in litt; Col. Rowley in litt; C. B. !). 



*Great White Heron, Ardea alba, L. 

 3. One seen crossing from the Suffolk to the Essex side of the Stour 



