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Lesser Black-backed Gulls (Larus fuscus) in Suffolk. — Eeferring 

 to Mr. Patterson's interesting notes (ante, p. 391), I may say that at 

 Lowestoft about mid- September these birds were seen daily. They 

 were often to be seen near the pier, and I believe used to work between 

 this locality and Easton Broad, always a favourite resort. Many of 

 them were fine old birds, very black on the back. Terns were to be 

 seen daily till I left on September 24th, and one rather rough day I 

 counted seven on a wharf to the north of the pier pavilion. They 

 were very tame, and when fishing in the harbour would often come 

 within a few yards of where people were standing. Most of them 

 were Common Terns, but I was able to identify one young Arctic 

 Tern by the short bill and pinkish legs. This bird was walking 

 about so near to me that, with the aid of glasses, every detail was 

 visible. — Julian G. Tuck (Tostock Eectory, Bury St. Edmunds). 



Home Colony of Birds.- — Whilst looking over the earlier volumes 

 of the ' Zoologist,' I found in the volume for 1897 some " local 

 lists of birds " recorded. These were of considerable interest to me, 

 as I have often wondered if there are many more favoured inland 

 nesting haunts than the immediate vicinity around my house. My 

 property covers an area of under twenty-three acres, situated in the 

 Dowlos valley adjoining Wyre Forest. Dowles brook intersects my 

 grounds ; there are two small plantations of about six acres in all, 

 the remainder being old orchard and grassland. The following is 

 a list of the nesting species : — 



Tawny Owl 



Bed-backed Shrike 



Spotted Flycatcher 



Dipper 



Mistle-Thrush 



Thrush 



Blackbird 



Hedge- Sparrow 



Eobin 



Eedstart 



Gold-crest 

 Great Tit 

 Blue Tit 

 Coal Tit 

 Marsh Tit 

 Long-tailed Tit 

 Pied Wagtail 

 Grey Wagtail 

 Tree-Pipit 

 Yellow-Hammer 



shopper Warbler* Chaffinch 

 W 7 hitethroat Tree- Sparrow 



Lesser Whitethroat 

 Blackcap 

 Garden- Warbler 

 Wood- Warbler 

 Willow-Warbler 

 Chiff-chaff 



Common Sparrow 



Hawfinch 



Greenfinch 



Goldfinctr- 



Linnet 



Bullfinch 



Starling 



Green Woodpecker 

 Greater Spotted Wood- 

 pecker 

 Wryneck 

 Tree-creeper 

 Wren 

 Swallow 

 Sand-Martin 

 Nightjar* 

 Cuckoo 

 Kingfisher 

 Eing-Dove 

 Turtle- Dove 

 Pheasant 

 Moorhen 



* These species have only nested in a single instance. 



