28 GRUIDZ—OTIDID™E 
230. GALLINULA CHLOROPUS (Linn.). Moor-hen. 
Common, resident and nesting. An occasional considerable immigra- 
tion in October and November; this was the case in October, 1867, ~ 
October, 1875, and November, 1884; these, however, may be home-bred 
birds changing their quarters through floods or other causes. See |‘ Zool.,’ 
1876, pp. 4845-46] Boyes. 
231. PorpHyRIO CcHRULEUS, Vand. Purple Gallinule. 
One shot at Spurn on July 9th, 1897, and set up by Mr. Loten, was 
probably an escape from some other part of the country where it had 
been kept in semi-captivity. 
232. Funica atTRA, Linn. Coot. 
Resident and nesting in all suitable localities. Wanders about in the 
autumn, appearing in unexpected places, and in severe weather resorts 
to the Humber and the sea coast. 
Order ALECTORIDES. Family GRUIDA. 
233. GRuS commMuUNIS, Bechst. Crane. 
Once an inhabitant of the Lincolnshire fens and the wastes of 
Axholme, the crane now only occurs as an extremely rare wanderer. In 
February, 1892, one which I saw, an immature bird, was shot at 
Flamborough |‘ Nat.,’ 1893, p. 203]. 
Family OTIDID A. 
234. Otis TARDA, Linn. Great Bustard. 
The last Lincolnshire bustard was shot in 1818, in Thoresby Field, 
near Louth, by Mr. Elmhirst, and sent as a present to Sir Joseph Banks 
[The late Rev. E. Elnhirst in litt. 29 xi. 86]. The last two eggs of the 
bustard, as the late Sir Charles Anderson of Lea told me, were taken in 
1835 or 1836 on his father’s property at Haywold, near Driffield, on 
the Yorkshire wolds. On November 11th, in 1864, a dead female 
bustard, still warm, was picked up at sea in Bridlington Bay [‘ Zool.,’ 
1865, p. 9442]. 
935. OTIS TETRAX, Linn. Little Bustard. 
Besides the East Yorkshire occurrences already recorded by Messrs. 
Clarke and Roebuck [‘ Hand. Yorks. Vert.,’ p. 69], one shot near Alford, 
Lincolnshire, in 1856, and a female shot in December, 1895, at Burton- 
Pidsea, Holderness {‘ Nat.,’ 1896, p. 132]. 
236. OTIS MACQUEENI, J. E. Gray. Asiatic Houbara. 
October, 1847, one was shot at Kirton-in-Lindsey, Lincolnshire; now 
in the museum of the Philosophical Society at York. On October 18th, 
1896, one, an immature male, at Kilnsea, Holderness, in Colonel 
White’s collection, Hedon [‘ Zool.,’ 1896, p. 433-34]. 
