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later in the day and shot the other. A third was said to have been afterwards 

 seen in the neighbourhood (H. Stevenson — 34. 4369). One was seen for more 

 than a week frequenting the large fields round Ramsey and Little Oakley 

 about Nov. 2 1st, 1882. Though often shot at, it escaped (Kerry — 40 vii. 119). 

 A female was shot on the Marsh Farm, Tillingham, by Mr. Robert Page 

 early in September, 1885 (29. Sept. 19). It is still in his possession. 



[Macqueen's Bustard: Houbara iiiacqueeni. 



At a sale held at the Argyll Street Auction Rooms, London, in 1871, 

 Lot 689 was described as " A Macqueen's Bustard shotat Harwich in 1823, 

 and preserved by Hall of Finsbury Square." There is not the slight- 

 est reason to suppose that this bird was shot in England, as may be 

 gathered from a note b}^ Mr. J. H. Gurney jun., in the Zoologist (34. 

 4763). In all probability, the bird was the one described in Mar- 

 tin Barry's catalogue as " obtained in company with the Little 

 Bustard," namely, the one recorded by Yarrell as having been shot at 

 the same time and place. Other gross mis-statements in the same 

 catalogue were exposed in the Ibis in 1863 (p. 477).] 



