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be driven away by throwing stones at it. He adds that 

 the last 'native seal' was killed about ten years ago, when 

 it was shot from the Fifth Buoy Light. A small seal got 

 about a year ago was but a mere casual visitant. It will 

 thus be seen that the animal survived a good deal later 

 than the evidence available at the time of writing the list 

 would lead one to suppose. 



BIRDS. 



73. Lanius collurio L. Red-backed Shrike (p. 27). 



Nested at Swillington, near Leeds, in 1881 (J. Tennant, MS.). 



1 33- Cypselus melba (L.). White-bellied Swift (p. 37). 

 The date of the Hornsea occurrence is June 2nd, 1870 

 (Boyes, MS.). 



203. Plegadis falcinellus (Z.). Glossy Ibis (p. 52). 



Filey, an immature specimen obtained in 1863 (Roberts' 

 Scarborough list). 



272. Otis tarda L. Great Bustard (p. 65). 



The only reference of early date to this bird is that the Earl 

 of Northumberland's regulations in 1512 for his castles of 

 ' Wresill and Lekinfield in Yorkshire ' included among the 

 articles for principal feasts 'Item Bustardes for my Lords 

 owne Meas at Principall Feists Ande noon outher tyme 

 Except my Lords comaundement be otherwis;' but no 

 price is attached as in the case of other birds mentioned. 



Prof. Newton, of Magdalen College, Cambridge, kindly 

 communicates the following additional evidence : 



'Rather more than a year ago the Master of Trinity 

 College, Dr. W. H. Thompson, told me that when he was 

 about six or seven years old he was living at York with his 

 grandfather, to whom a Bustard was sent as a present. 

 Dr. Thompson remembered going into the servants' hall 

 or the kitchen to look at it, and some one was holding it 

 up by the legs. He thought it weighed about eight or 

 nine pounds, and it would therefore be a hen bird. He 

 supposed it had been shot on the Yorkshire Wolds, where 



