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he had heard Bustards once existed, and that it was eaten 
in the house, but he had no recollection of having tasted 
it, or indeed anything more about it. Dr. Thompson 
graduated B.A. in 1832, and supposing him to have been 
then twenty-two years of age, the event must have happened 
about 1816 or 1817. 
‘In October, 1854, Mr. Barnard Henry Foord, of Foxholes, 
near Scarborough, then aged twenty-five, told me he remem- 
bered having seen Bustards—the last was at Foxholes 
about nineteen years before (ze, 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. I confess I was not, nor am I now, 
satisfied with it, though I am unable to suggest any 
explanation of the difficulty—for even if he had been a 
year or two older than he said (and he could not have been 
more), it would still remain.’ 

288. Himantopus candidus Zonnat. Black-winged Stilt 
(Pp. 73): 
Miss Hall, of Scorborough, has informed Mr. Stephenson 
that the specimens now in his possession were shot about 
thirty years ago in Aike Carr, by Lord Hotham’s keeper 
(John Stephenson, MS.). 
289. Phalaropus hyperboreus (Z.). Red-necked Phala- 
rope (p. 73). 
Tees mouth, four in 1854 (Rev. H. Smith, MS.). 

ERRATUM. 
Page 6, line 4 from the bottom, For ‘PINE’ read ‘BEECH.’ 
On pages xxxiii and 74, the melanic variety sabini has, 
through pure inadvertence, been ascribed to the Double 
Snipe instead of to the Common Snipe. 
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