246 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK. 



Hooded Merganser, Mergus cucullatus, L. 



1. A specimen killed in the winter of 1829, in Mr. Selby's possession 

 (Paget, Y., 12); Mr. Stevenson remarks that this specimen, killed on 

 Breydon, was the first obtained in Great Britain (B. of N i., Introd. 

 xviii., note). Professor Newton, however, shews that the skin was probably 

 American (Tr. Norf. and Nor w. Nat. Soc. ii., 408 note). 



2. An adult male shot at Orford, on the Sudbourn Hall Estate, 

 given with many other of his birds by Sir R. Wallace to the Ipswich 

 Museum, the selection being made by Dr. Taylor (C. B. !). 



Inhabits North America, an extremely rare straggler to 



Britain. 



*Brunnich's Guillemot, Una arra (Pallas). 



3. One purchased at the Sale of the Sudbury Museum ; it formed 

 part of a case of twelve " British Aquatic Birds " Lot 230 ; but 

 although there is considerable reason for presuming that it was 

 obtained near the mouth of the Orwell or Stour, whence so many of the 

 aquatic birds in that museum came, there is no direct evidence on the 

 point (in my Collection C. B. ; see Howard Saunders in Yarrell, Br. B. 

 iv., 78 Ed. 4 ; where it is called Uria Brilnnichii, Sabine). 



An asterisk is placed before this Arctic bird, though it 

 scarcely requires confirmation, so far at least as concerns its 

 English provenancef ; it is possible however that it may 

 have been taken on the borders of Essex, and not of Suffolk. 



White-billed Diver, Colymbus Adamsi (G. B. Gray). 



1. A specimen in winter plumage obtained at Pakefield, near Lowes- 

 toft, in the spring of 1852; in Mr. J. H. Gurney's Collection (mentioned 

 incidentally above under Great Northern Diver, as a variety). 



3. One, immature, from the Sudbury Museum; in my Collection (for 

 the probable locality see the preceding bird). For the distinction 

 of this bird from the" Great Northern Diver see H. Seebohm in Z. 3rd 

 S. ix. (1885), 144-5 and H. Saundeis in Yarrell Br. B. iv., 100 and 

 pref. p. x. My specimen has the bill almost white at the junction of 

 the mandibles ; the rest is horn-coloured, the lower mandible is every- 

 where pale, and has a decided slope or curve upwards. The form of the 

 bills of the birds in the British and Cambridge Museums agrees with 

 that of my own, an autotype of which is here given. 



A native of the Arctic Begions ; only one other specimen 



+ Mr. Jonathan Grubb, the brother-in- think that there is any probability that 

 law ot Mr. King, who may be called the this or the following species are there 

 founder of the Sudbury Museum, does not represented by a foreign specimen. 



