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turnip field at Dersingham, near Castle Rising. The base 

 of each of the feathers on the breast of this bird was of 

 a delicate rose colour. Belon notices this hue as common 

 to the species. 



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 Yorkshire wolds, which were for a long time a favourite 

 locality for them. Mr. Denny, of Leeds, sent me word 

 that a townsman of his remembers seeing Bustards on the 

 wolds at the beginning of the present century. About the 

 year 1817, eight Bustards were seen together, in the shoot- 

 ing season, in a large turnip field, in the parish of South 

 Dal ton. Within the last twenty-five years they were known 

 to breed on a wold, near Malton, and Mr. Hawkridge sent 

 me word that about twenty-four years since one was shot 

 on a wold near Scarborough. 



Early in February, 1843, E. H. Rodd, Esq., of Pen- 

 zance, sent me word that a female of the Great Bustard 

 had been shot only a few days before on an open plain 

 between Helston and the Lizard Point. The bird had 

 been observed for some days in a field of turnips close by. 

 This is considered to be the first instance of the capture of 

 the Great Bustard in Cornwall. 



Of this bird, in Scotland, Dr. Fleming observes, that it 

 appears to have been found in the days of Boece ; Sibbald, 

 however, seems to view it as rare in his day ; and it is 

 now reduced to the rank of a straggler. One was shot in 

 1803, in Murrayshire, by William Young, Esq., of Borough- 

 head. 



M. Nilsson says the Great Bustard is of rare appearance 

 in Sweden ; but has been observed in spring. Mr. Lloyd, 

 in his Scandinavian Adventures, 1854, says, this bird is" 



