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BIRDS. 
tom. cit. 2102). Mr. H. Woodall informed Mr. Morris 
that in 1816 or 1817 Mr. James Dowker, of North Dalton, 
killed two near that place with a right and left shot, and 
saw a third, Mr. Woodall believed, at the same time; a 
nest that had been forsaken was also found with one egg 
in it, which is the one now in the Scarborough Museum. 
One of the birds shot was presented to George the Fourth, 
then Prince Regent. Mr. A. S. Bell (Zool., 1870, p. 2103) 
adds that the other was cooked by Mr. Dowker, and that 
in the previous year—which he states as 1809—five 
Bustards were seen on the same moor, but were very wild, 
and none shot. These dates disagree, but it is more than 
probable that that of the label on the egg is the correct 
one. Sir Charles Anderson also states that the Bustard 
bred at Haywold [evidently the Hawold of the Ordnance 
Map, situate above North Dalton] about 1810. In 1865 
Mr. 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 Scor- 
borough, about forty years before [z.e., about 1825], and Mr. 
Hall 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. 
(Zool., 1865, p. 9446). After Mr. Hall’s death, his collec- 
tion was sold, the male Bustard passing into the possession 
of Mr. Thos. Boynton, and the female into that of Mr. 
John Stephenson, of Beverley. 
A pair—male and female—are preserved in the Black- 
more Museum, at Salisbury, which were killed near 
Malton, in 1825 (Thos. Norwood, of Salisbury, ‘ Country,’ 
Jan. 11,1877, Vill:, 39). 
The fine pair in the Scarborough Museum were purchased 
from Mr. 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 was shot on 
Rufforth Moor, near York, on the 22nd of Feb., 1861 
(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 the 
11th Nov., 1864 (Boulton, Zool., 1865, p. 9442). 

