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the neighbourhood of Durrington. He gave it to Mr. 

 Moore, of Durrington, who had a painting made of it by 

 Mr. Dudinan, an artist staying at the place. The painting 

 is in the possession of his son, George Pearce Moore, 

 Esq. (Signed) " J. S." 



Since the publication of the second edition of this His- 

 tory of British Birds, but few instances of the occurrence 

 of this species have been recorded. One, believed by its 

 size to be a female, was seen on Salisbury Plain by Mr. 

 G. R. Waterhouse of the British Museum, in the month 

 of August, 1849, when returning to Salisbury with a 

 party of friends from a visit to Stonehenge. Mr. Water- 

 house is well known as an excellent naturalist, and the 

 bird was seen several times on the wing by the party 

 during an interval of eight or ten minutes. The subject 

 is noticed in the volume of the Zoologist for 1849, at 

 page 2590. 



The second bird, also a female, was shot in January, 

 1850, at Lydd, in Romney Marsh. This specimen is in 

 the possession of Dr. Plomley, who recorded the circum- 

 stance in the Zoologist for the year 1850, at page 2700. 



The third was shot on the 31st of December, 1851, in 

 Devonshire. This specimen was preserved by Mr. Drax, 

 and is now in the possession of J. G. Newton, Esq., 

 of Millaton Bridestow, as recorded in the Naturalist for 

 1852, page 33 ; and on the 8th of February, 1853, one was 

 killed in a turnip field at Lees Hill, Lannercost, Cumber- 

 land, and is in the possession of Mr. Joseph Mowbray, at 

 Brampton. Zoologist, 1854, page 4407. 



I had long wished to have an opportunity of examining 

 the body of a male Bustard, to inspect the gular pouch de- 

 scribed by Daines Barrington, in his Miscellanies, 1781, 

 and by Edwards in his Gleanings in Natural History, 



