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recollection of having tasted it, or indeed, anything more 

 about it. Dr. Thompson graduated B.A. in 1832, and, sup- 

 posing him to have been then twenty-two years of age, the 

 event must have happened about 1816 or 1817." Mr. J. W. 

 Woodall states that about 1825 a Bustard was run over 

 and killed between Folkton and Hunmanby. Sir Charles 

 Anderson has a stuffed specimen, taken in 1825 at Hunmanby, 

 and in 1828, while shooting on Mr. Osbaldeston's property 

 at that place, he saw a fine cock. This would, no doubt, 

 be the identical bird seen in Grindale Field by Mr. John 

 Milner of Middledale, Kilham, he thinks, about the year 1828, 

 for — as he informed Mr. Boynton — it was some time after he 

 left school in 1825, and at the time he was riding with his 

 father, who died in 1830. Mr. Boynton was also told by the 

 late Mrs. Metcalfe of Bridlington Quay that she and her 

 husband (who was Vicar of Reighton, and died in 1834), 

 were invited to dine at Boynton Hall with Sir Wm. Strickland, 

 the principal dish being a Great Bustard, which Sir William, 

 in his note of invitation, described as probably " the last of 

 his race." 



Sir Charles Anderson believes the existence of the Great 

 Bustard in Yorkshire ceased in 1832 or 1833, when the last hen 

 bird was trapped on Sir Wm. Strickland's estate at Boynton, 

 near Bridlington. This, however, was not the case, as 

 Professor Newton, in 1881, gives particulars of a conversation 

 he had many years before on this subject, to the following 

 effect : — 



" In October 1854, Mr. Barnard Henry Foord of Foxholes, 

 near Scarborough, aged then twenty-five, told me he re- 

 membered having seen Bustards — the last was at Foxholes 

 about nineteen years before (i.e., 1835). His father once 

 saw eleven together. He had heard his uncle speak of running 

 Bustards with greyhounds, as if he had been present at the 

 time. This Mr. Foord is, I believe, now dead. I was very 

 much struck at the time by the nature of his evidence, for I 

 had believed that the bird was extinct in Yorkshire before 

 1835, and I remember pressing him particularly with questions 

 on this point ; but he persisted in the truth of his statement. 



