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species, and to the Fauna of our own island ; a fine speci- 

 men, in the Museum of the Philosophical Society at York, 

 having been shot by Mr. G. Hansley in a stubble-field on 

 Kinton Cliff, Kinton Lindsey, Lincolnshire, on the 7th of 

 October, 1847, and another example killed on the 13th 

 of December, 1845, on the plain between Woluwe St. 

 Etienne and Dieghem, a league from Brussels. The 

 latter specimen, a fine adult male, is now in the Museum 

 at Brussels. The Vicomte Du Bus, who furnished Mr. 

 Gould with this information, added also, that he ate part 

 of the body, and that it equalled in every respect the 

 character given by Latham and others of the flesh of the 

 Houbara, which they say is of the highest flavour. 



Mr. Lloyd, in his Scandinavian Adventures, published 

 in 1854, after having referred to the well known Great 

 Bustard and the Little Bustard says, that a third species 

 of Bustard is included in the Danish Fauna namely, the 

 Trave-Trctfip, or Trotting Bustard (Otis houbara, Linn.), 

 in one instance shot in Schleswig. It is conjectured that 

 the Bustard from Western India is the more likely bird 

 to have been killed in Denmark than the Bustard of Arabia 

 and North Africa. 



Captain Hutton states that Macqueen's Bustard is com- 

 mon, and remains all the year, on the stony plains of 

 Afghanistan, where it is sometimes seen in small packs 

 of five or six together. It flies heavily, and for short 

 distances, soon alighting and running. Mr. Blyth says, 

 that according to a writer in the Bengal Sporting Maga- 

 zine, it frequents dry sandy plains where there is a little 

 grass, and is also found in grain and wheat fields. Its 

 flesh, which is exceedingly tender, is so covered with fat 

 that the skins are with difficulty dried and preserved. 

 Captain Boys, during the many years he had collected in 

 the upper provinces, never obtained more than one speci- 



