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taken to provide it with a mate, which was pre- 

 sented for that purpose by the late Lord Lilford, 

 were described shortly afterwards in The Field of 

 April 8, 1876, and Trans. Norf. Nat. Soc, ii. 

 pp. 307-311. 



While these pages were passing through the 

 press a further effort was being made to reintroduce 

 the Bustard in what was formerly one of its favourite 

 haunts on the East Anglian "brecks." (See The 

 Field, March 3, 1900, and Mr. St. Quintin's experi- 

 ments, March 17, 1900.) This effort was due to the 

 zeal of an English sportsman in Spain, who at 

 considerable trouble and expense caused several of 

 these birds to be captured alive and sent to Eng- 

 land, where they arrived in the month of August. 

 With the co-operation of Lord Walsingham and 

 Lord Iveagh they were taken care of for some time 

 in a large enclosure before being allowed their 

 freedom on English soil. The result of this experi- 

 ment remains to be seen, though there is little 

 hope that it will prove successful. 



As to the measurements and weight of Bustards, 

 see my article on the largest birds that fly, Field, 

 Sept. 16, 1899. Many other points of interest in 

 connection with the history and habits of the Bus- 

 tard, and its former distribution in Great Britain, 

 cannot be mentioned in ;the space here available, 

 and the reader must be referred to Stevenson's 

 " Birds of Norfolk," the second volume of which 

 contains an admirable coloured figure of this bird 

 by Wolf; Babington's "Birds of Suffolk;" Mansel 



