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Museum, at Salisbury, which were killed near Malton in 

 1825 (Thomas Norwood of Salisbury, " Country," nth January 

 1877, viii. p. 39). 



The fine pair in the Scarborough Museum were purchased 

 from Hugh Reid of Doncaster, and presented by Dr. Murray, 

 many years ago. 



Since the date of its final extinction as a resident, the 

 Great Bustard, now become an accidental visitant, has 

 twice occurred in Yorkshire. A female example was shot 

 on Rufforth Moor, near York, on 22nd February 1861 (T. Allis, 

 Zool. 1861, p. 7507), and is now in the York Museum ; and 

 another female, just dead but still warm, was picked up in 

 the sea near Bridlington Quay on nth November 1864 (W. 

 W. Boulton, op. cit. 1865, p. 9442). This specimen is now in 

 the collection of Mr. Thomas Boynton at Bridlington, where 

 I have had the privilege of examining it, as also the male 

 individual purchased from the Scorborough collection. 



LITTLE BUSTARD. 



Otis tetrax (Z.). 



Accidental visitant from the European Continent, Asia, and north 

 Africa. 



The true home of this handsome bird is in the deserts of 

 Asia and north-west Africa, though it also nests in the east 

 of Europe, whence rare stragglers on migration in winter 

 wander to our shores. 



The first recorded Yorkshire specimens of this bird are 

 those referred to as seen at Flamborough, in 1814-15, and 

 mentioned by Arthur Strickland in the Report of Thomas 

 Allis, who, in 1844, wrote : — 



Otis tetrax. — The Lesser Bustard — Dr. Farrar informs me that a 

 specimen of this beautiful species was shot in Bolton Wood, near 

 Bradford, about five years ago by the keeper of Francis Simes, Esq., 

 in whose possession it now remains; F. O. Morris reports another 

 specimen shot near Beverley, and now in the possession of James Hall, 



