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be driven away by throwing stones at it. He adds that 
the last ‘native seal’ was killed about ten years ago, when 
it was shot from the Fifth Buoy Light. A small seal got 
about a year ago was but a mere casual visitant. It will 
thus be seen that the animal survived a good deal later 
than the evidence available at the time of writing the list 
would lead one to suppose. 
BIRDS: 
73. Lanius collurio Z. Red-backed Shrike (p. 27). 
Nested at Swillington, near Leeds, in 1881 (J. Tennant, MS.). 
133. Cypselus melba (Z.). White-bellied Swift (p. 37). 
The date of the Hornsea occurrence is June 2nd, 1870 
(Boyes, MS.). 
203. Plegadis falcinellus (Z.). Glossy Ibis (p. 52). 
Filey, an immature specimen obtained in 1863 (Roberts’ 
Scarborough list). 
272. Otis tarda Z. Great Bustard (p. 65). 
The only reference of early date to this bird is that the Earl 
of Northumberland’s regulations in 1512 for his castles of 
‘Wresill and Lekinfield in Yorkshire’ included among the 
articles for principal feasts ‘Item Bustardes for my Lords 
owne Meas at Principall Feists Ande noon outher tyme 
Except my Lords comaundement be otherwis;’ but no 
price is attached as in the case of other birds mentioned. 
Prof. Newton, of Magdalen College, Cambridge, kindly 
communicates the following additional evidence :— 
‘Rather more than a year ago the Master of Trinity 
College, Dr. W. H. Thompson, told me that when he was 
about six or seven years old he was living at York with his 
grandfather, to whom a Bustard was sent as a present. 
Dr. Thompson remembered going into the servants’ hall 
or the kitchen to look at it, and some one was holding it 
up by the legs. He thought it weighed about eight or 
nine pounds, and. it would therefore be a hen bird. He 
supposed it had been shot on the Yorkshire Wolds. where 
