248 CATALOGUE OF THE BIRDS OF SUFFOLK, 



Wilson's Petrel, Procellaria Wilsoni, Bonaparte. 

 2. One obtained some years ago, near Aldeburgh, in possession of Col. 

 Thelusson (Hele, Aid., 176); Mr. Hele has carefully examined this very 

 old specimen, and finds the legs quite as long as those of the figure 

 (350) in Morris' Br. B. (in liit 1885).* 



Whenever any of the accidental visitors to Britain 

 mentioned above have their home in any other part of 

 Europe, there is no notice at all here given of their 

 geographical distribution ; if otherwise, a slight notice is 

 given of their principal native countries. 



The following birds are omitted in their proper places in 

 the foregoing Catalogue : — 



*White Wagtail, Motacilla alba, L. 



6. Two specimens, one in winter the other in summer plumage, were 

 in Mr. W. J. King's Collection, and then came into that of his nephew Mr. 

 Grubb(C.B!). They were in all probability obtained in the neighbourhood 

 of Sudbury, as no importance appears to have been attached to them. It 

 is very remarkable that this species which is the common one on the 

 Continent should be so rare in most parts of Great Britain, only one 

 adult pair having recently been seen in Norfolk (see H. Stevenson in 

 Z. 3rd S. ix. (1885) 3*28), not having been recorded from that county at the 

 time when (1884) Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., published his Catalogue of 

 the Birds of Norfolk in Mason's History of the County. 



*The following bird has a very good 

 claim to be considered a passenger through N.B. — The general remarks, which occur 



Suffolk : — at irregular intervals at the head of the 



Dusky Shearwater, Piijfinus ob.scurus. birds throughout this catalogue, beyond 



1. One found dead on the Earsham being sometimes epitomized by me, are not 



Estate, close to the S.E. boundary of mine unless they are accompanied by my 



Norfolk, within a mile of Bungay in initials (C. B.); the name of the writer 



Suffolk (H. Stevenson, Norf. Nat. Soc. iii., by whom they are made is always 



467). Mr. Stevenson remarks that "its prefixed to them. It would have made 



inland flight, therefore, from the coast the meaning more distinct, if the words 



would probably have been between Lowes- following each writer's name had been 



toft and Southwold." included in a parenthesis or inverted 



TWhidah Bird, Vidua paradisea, (L.). commas. Under the particular districts the 



Shot by Mr. G. Steward of Little name of the writer is placed after the facts 



Waldingfield at that place, August 1864, quoted from him. 

 C. B. ! A West African genus ; this fine 

 specimen is doubtless an escaped bird. 



