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torn. tit. 2102). Mr. H. Woodall informed Mr. Morris 

 that in 1816 or 1817 Mr. James Dowker, of North Dalton, 

 killed two near that place with a right and left shot, and 

 saw a third, Mr. Woodall believed, at the same time ; a 

 nest that had been forsaken was also found with one egg 

 in it, which is the one now in the Scarborough Museum. 

 One of the birds shot was presented to George the Fourth, 

 then Prince Regent. Mr. A. S. Bell (Zool., 1870, p. 2103) 

 adds that the other was cooked by Mr. Dowker, and that 

 in the previous year which he states as 1809 five 

 Bustards were seen on the same moor, but were very wild, 

 and none shot. These dates disagree, but it is more than 

 probable that that of the label on the egg is the correct 

 one. Sir Charles Anderson also states that the Bustard 

 bred at Haywold [evidently the Hawold of the Ordnance 

 Map, situate above North Dalton] about 1810. In 1865 

 Mr. W. W. Boulton saw at Scorborough, the seat of Mr. 

 James Hall, two specimens which had been captured in 

 the East Riding one, a female, was evidently a bird of 

 the year ; it was taken alive in the neighbourhood of Scor- 

 borough, about forty years before [/.&, about 1825], and Mr. 

 Hall had it tethered on his lawn ; the other, an old male, 

 Mr. Hall had forgotten the history of, but thought it was 

 taken not far from Doncaster, and certainly in Yorkshire. 

 (Zool., 1865, p. 9446). After Mr. Hall's death, his collec- 

 tion was sold, the male Bustard passing into the possession 

 of Mr. Thos. Boynton, and the female into that of Mr. 

 John Stephenson, of Beverley. 



A pair male and female are preserved in the Black- 

 more Museum, at Salisbury, which were killed near 

 Malton, in 1825 (Thos. Norwood, of Salisbury, ' Country,' 

 Jan. n, 1877, viii., 39). 



The fine pair in the Scarborough Museum were purchased 

 from Mr. Reid, of Doncaster, and presented by Dr. 

 Murray, many years ago. 



Since the date of its final extinction as a resident, the 

 Great Bustard now become an accidental visitant has 

 twice occurred in Yorkshire. A female was shot on 

 Rufforth Moor, near York, on the 22nd of Feb., 1861 

 (Allis, Zool., 1861, p. 7507), and is now in the York 

 Museum ; and another female, just dead but still warm, 

 was picked up in the sea, near Bridlington Quay, on the 

 nth Nov., 1864 (Boulton, Zool., 1865, p. 9442). 



