DISTRIBUTION OP THE BIRDS OP SUPFOLK. 269 



Tern. The three following have been introduced into 

 Suffolk, but wholly unsuccessfully : — the Capercailzie, Red 

 Grouse, and Black Grouse. A very large proportion — 

 more than half — of the whole number (24.7) are distributed 

 over the whole of the county. A hundred and twenty-eight 

 species are recorded from all the eight districts, but there 

 are probably nearly forty more which may have to be 

 added, being now recorded from six or seven districts. The 

 numbers which occur in four and five districts are about 

 twenty and thirty respectively. 



Several birds, more especially those of the coast, have as 

 yet been recorded from three districts only, but are not very 

 rare therein ; such are the Rock Pipit, Turnstone, Pink- 

 footed Goose, Velvet Scoter, Razor-bill, Arctic Tern, and 

 Glaucous Gull ; while others which have occurred in the 

 same number of districts are among the rarest of Suffolk 

 birds; they are the Crested Tit (one specimen in each 

 district), Dartford Warbler, Great Bustard (now extinct), 

 Purple Heron, Baillon's Crake, Ferruginous Duck, Eider 

 Duck, and Buffon's Skua. 



The following have hitherto been found in no more than 

 two districts ; the Greyheaded Wagtail, Fire-crest (?), Bee- 

 eater, Rock Dove (?), Kentish Plover, Temminck's Stint, 

 Bernicle Goose, Black Guillemot, Iceland Gull (?), and Great 

 Skua. And these in conclusion can be counted upon from 

 one district only viz., the Woodchat Shrike, Eichard's Pipit, 

 Lapland Bunting (onespecimen), Cirl Bunting (one specimen), 

 Glossy Ibis, Crane (one specimen), Little Crake. 



At the same time the fact that a bird has been found in 

 all the eight districts does not by any means prove that it 

 is abundant in all parts of the county, or even in any one 

 district. The following may fairly be regarded as more or 

 less rare in them all ; the Osprey, Peregrine Falcon, Hobby, 

 Merlin, Common Buzzard, Rough-Legged Buzzard, Great 

 Grey Shrike, Pied Flycatcher, Ring Ouzel, Reed Warbler, 

 Brambling, Raven (now almost extinct), Great Spotted 

 Woodpecker, Little Spotted Woodpecker, Quail, Bittern, 

 Spotted Crake, Shoveller, Pintail, Tufted Duck, Golden 



