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having been charged some time, did not readily go off, and 

 in consequence he missed his aim. The report frightened 

 the bird away ; but after making a turn or two, it again 

 settled within a hundred yards of him, when he was pre- 

 pared with a second shot, which despatched it. It was 

 observed to run with incredible swiftness, and, at intervals 

 to pick up something from the ground ; and was so bold, 

 as to render it difficult to make it rise from the ground, in 

 order to take a more secure aim on the wing. The note 

 was not like that of any kind of Plover, nor, indeed, to 

 be compared with that of any known bird. 



Dr. Fleming, in his British Animals, records one that 

 was shot in North Wales in 1793 by Mr. George King- 

 ston, of Queen's College, Oxford. 



A third specimen is recorded in Atkinson's Compen- 

 dium. This example was shot near Wetherby, in April, 

 1816 ; it was seen alone, on a piece of dry fallow ground, 

 over which it ran with great swiftness, making frequent 

 short flights, and was approached without difficulty. 



A fourth example is recorded by George T. Fox, Esq., 

 of Durham, in the third volume of the Zoological Journal, 

 page 492. " This bird was shot on the 15th of October, 

 1827, under Timberwood Hill, in Charnwood Forest, 

 Leicestershire, by a tenant of Mr. T. Gisborne, who resides 

 at Charley Mill, near that place. He described it as 

 coming flying over his head, uttering a cry with which he 

 was unacquainted, and it settled near him. This rare sub- 

 ject is the property of the Rev. T. Gisborne, F.L.S., of 

 Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire, to whose ornithological taste 

 his son knew the possession of it would be a subject of 

 congratulation. He liberally furnished the use of it to 

 Mr. Selby and Mr. Bewick, for the purpose of engraving 

 figures of it for their works on British Ornithology." The 

 representation of this Cream-coloured Courser was the last 



