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Mr. J. H. Gurney (J. H. Gurney, jun., in Dresser B. of Eur. vi., 560 

 and in Hit.). A female killed on Breydon July 1818, in possession of 

 Mr. Youell (Hunt Brit. Orn. ii., 333, where this specimen is figured); 

 it was the first noticed in England (H. Stevenson in Dresser B. of Eur. 

 u. s.); two more were shot there in 1826 (Hunt in Stacey Hist, of 

 Norf. i., lxiii). 



2. Three seen on Easton Broad, and one, a fine adult male, shot by 

 Mr. T. M. Spalding, in spring some years before 1864; sold at his sale 

 (Lot 317) for six guineas to Mr. Greenwood, of Saxmundham (H. 

 Stevenson in litt; F. Spalding in litt). 



*Harlequin Duck, Histrionicus torquatus, Bonap. 



1. One bought in the market at Yarmouth by Mr. Wigg (Paget T., 

 12). An adult male, said to have been killed near Yarmouth, is in the 

 Norwich Museum, and is entered in the Donation Book of the Museum 

 in 1839 (Gurney and Fisher in Z. 1380; J. H. Gurney, jun., in Mason's 

 Norfolk, pt. iv., who considers the locality very doubtful). Mr. Steven- 

 son omits it altogether from his List in White's Norf 



Buffel-headed Utjck, Clangula albeola (L.). 



1. One killed in 1830 on Breydon, formerly in possession of Mr. S. 

 Miller; it is mentioned in Paget's Yarmouth, (note 11), as a small 

 specimen of the Golden Eye; it was bought by Mr. Rising of Horsey for 

 £5 10s. (J. H. Gurney, jun., MS.; see also Yarrell Br. B. iii., ^73, Ed. i.). 

 This bird was the first obtained in Great Britain (Stevenson, B. of N. 

 i., Introd. p. xviii. note). 



4. Another obtained two or three years ago on the Melton Marshes, 

 near Woodbridge, now in possession of Dr. Taylor (J. E. Taylor in litt.). 



Inhabits the Mearctic Regions. 



The following species has hardly any The following beautiful bird perhaps 



claim to be called a native of Suffolk : — deserves to be included in a note : — 

 * King Duck, Somateria spectabilis (L.). Summer Duck, Aix Sponsa (L). 



1. A iemale shot on Breydon July 25, 3. One from Iken decoy, in Mr. W. P. 

 1813 (Paget, Y., 11). Mr. Gurney, jun., T. Phillips's Collection (F. Spalding MS.). 

 thinks this doubtful (in litt.). Two are One shot on the Sudbourn Hall estate; 

 recorded as shot at Lowestoft, one before (C. B. !). 



1846, the other in 1854, both considered 7. A male recently shot at Elveden, 



doubtful; the latter suspected by Mr. preserved by Mr. D. Newby (in my 



Harting to be an Eider Duck (Gould's Collection; C. B.) 



Birds of Q. B. v.; Dresser, B. of Eur. 8. Two males and one female shot at 



vi., 645; J. H. Gurney and W. R. Fisher Livermere Oct. 24, 1848, others were 



in Z. 1378, and Harper in Nat. 1854, afterwards seen there (A. Newton in Z. 



165 ; this last quoted in Harting's 2382). 



Handbook 164). A North- American species ; almost 



2. A female bird shot at Aldeburgh certainly a semi-domesticated bird, when- 

 in 1827 said to have been in Mr. Acton's ever it has been taken in England; see Br. 

 Collection (Acton in Loudon's Mag. N. S. Orn. Un. List. Br. B. 123. 



iv. (1831), 163). 



