144 BRITISH BIRDS. 



Rodel, South Harris, Outer Hebrides. The Green Sandpiper 

 has only once before been recorded from the Outer Hebrides, 

 viz., in South Uist, on October 31st, 1901 (c/. Vol. II., p. 269). 



The late Mr. Alexander Williams.— Onty a limited 

 number of friends were aware that Mr. Alexander Williams 

 of Jerez de la Frontera, who recently died at Ben Rhj^dding, 

 suddenly in his seventieth year, while on a visit to England, 

 was really the prime mover in the attempt to re-introduce 

 the Great Bustard {Otis tarda) to Norfolk. He managed 

 to get together at considerable expense no fewer than 

 sixteen of these birds, and with the co-operation of Lord 

 Walsingham and Lord Iveagh, they were hberated at 

 Elveden in 1900. Though some of the birds actually 

 nested, several were wantonly shot, and others came to 

 various untimely ends or stra3^ed a.way, so that the 

 experiment ended in failure. A photograph of one of these 

 Norfolk nests is reproduced in the Field, September 16th, 

 1911 (p. 678), together with some notes on the subject of the 

 re-introduction. Mr. Williams was one of the lessees of the 

 famous Coto de Dofiana, now the property of Senores 

 Garvey, known to ornithologists as the breeding ground of 

 Flamingos, most of the European Herons, and many other 

 interesting species, and his hospitalitj^ was freel}^ extended 

 to visiting naturalists. 



