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lowing : — " July Sotli, a reward to Baxter for bringing two 

 young Bustards ;" and " Item, a Bustard and a Hcrnsewc 

 kylled with ye crosbowc." I have been favoured by Thomas 

 Bond, Esq. of the Temple, with extracts from Dugdale''s* 

 Origincs Juridiciales, which, as exhibiting the prices of various 

 kinds of game provided for a feast given in the Inner Temple 

 Hall on the 16th of October 15o5, the third year of Philip 

 and Mary, is not without ornithological interest ; — namely, 

 Bustards IO5. each; Swans 10s. Cranes 10s. Pheasants 4.s. 

 Turkeys 4s. Turkey chicks 4s. Capons 2s. 6d. Pea chickens 

 2s. Partridges Is. 4^/. Plovers 6cL Curlews Is. Hd. Godwits 

 2s. 6d. Knots Is. Pigeons Is. 6d. a dozen ; Larks 8f/. a 

 dozen ; Woodcocks 7s. 8d. a dozen ; Snipes 2s. a dozen. To 

 return, however, to the Bustard in the county of Norfolk, 

 I find Mr. Salmon has recorded that " in the spring of 

 1832, three females resorted to Great Massingham Heath, in 

 Norfolk, for incubation. Their eggs consisted of two pairs 

 and a single one. These were taken away, under the im- 

 pression that as there was no male bird, they were good for 

 nothing ; but the male is said to live apart after the female is 

 impregnated." From Mr. William Borrer, Jun. I learn 

 that a very fine female was brought to him, which was killed 

 on the 26th of January, 1838, whilst feeding in a turnip 

 field at Dersingham, near Castle Rising. The base of 

 each of the feathers on the breast of this bird was of a deli- 

 cate rose colour. 



In Lincolnshire, I find from Charles Anderson, Esq. that 

 a pair of Bustards bred a few years since on his father*'s 

 farm at Hawold, and a single Bustard was seen a few winters 

 ago, and was considered to be a stray bird, from the York- 



* I am indebted to another very kind friend for an extract from Dugdale's 

 Monasticon Anglicamim, in reference to an early notice of Pheasants, by which 

 it appears that the Abbot of A mesbury obtained a license to kill Hares and 

 Pheasants in the first year of the reign of Henry the First, which commenced 

 on the 2nd of August, 1100. 



