556 THE BIRDS OF YORKSHIRE. 



near North Dalton, with a right and left shot, and saw a third, 

 Mr. Woodall beheved, at the same time ; a nest that had been 

 forsaken was also found, with one egg in it, which is now 

 in the Scarborough Museum.* 



One of the birds shot was presented to George IV., then 

 Prince Regent. A. S. Bell {torn. cit. p. 2103), added that 

 the other was cooked by Mr. Dowker, and that in the previous 

 year — which he stated as i8og — five Bustards were seen on 

 the same moor, but were very wild, and none killed. These 

 dates disagree, but it is more than probable that that of the 

 label on the egg is the correct one, especially as the Rev. G. D. 

 Armitage informs me [in litt. 1902), that a Great Bustard 

 was obtained by W. Armitage at North Dalton in 1816. 

 Sir Charles Anderson also states that the Bustard bred at 

 Haywold [evidently the Hawold of the Ordnance Map, situate 

 above North Dalton] about 1810. 



It is by no means unlikely that a pair or two of Bustards 

 may have lingered much longer in some districts than in others, 

 as the Enclosures Act, which gave them ' notice to quit,' 

 was not a general Act, but each parish obtained its extension 

 at different times, hence some years elapsed between its 

 operation in various districts, and the birds would linger 

 the longest where the Act came into operation the latest. 



In 1865 the late W. W. Boulton saw at Scorborough, 

 the seat of Mr. James Hall, two specimens which had been 

 captured in the East Riding — one, a female, was evidently 

 a bird of the year ; it was taken alive in the neighbourhood 

 of Scorborough, about forty years before (about 1825), and Mr. 

 Hall had had it tethered on his lawn ; the other, an old male, 

 Mr. Hall had forgotten the history of, but thought it was taken 

 not far from Doncaster, and certainly in Yorkshire {op. cit. 

 1865, p. 9446). After Mr. Hall's death, his collection was 

 sold, the male Bustard passing into the possession of Mr. 

 Thomas Boynton, and the female into that of Mr. John 

 Stephenson of Beverley. 



A pair — male and female — are preserved in the Blackmore 



* As bearing on this point it may be of interest to mention that 

 a farm at Hutton Cranswick is still called " The Bustard's Nest." 



