240 CHARADRIID^. 



East Hiding, in 1828 (W. E. Clarke, Hbk. Yorkshire 

 Vertebrates, p. 70). 



A sixth example, recorded by Mr. George T. Fox, of Dur- 

 ham (Zoological Journal, iii. p. 492), was shot on the 15th 

 of October, 1827, under Timberwood Hill, in Charnwood 

 Forest, Leicestershire, by a tenant of Mr. T. Gisborne, of 

 Charley Mill, near that place, and became the property of 

 the Eev. T. Gisborne, 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, 

 and the representation of this Cream-coloured Courser was 

 the last bird engraved by the latter.* 



Another example is recorded by Mr. E. Acton (Mag. Nat. 

 Hist. iv. p. 163) as shot at Friston, near Aldborough, in 

 Suffolk, on the 3rd of October, 1828, and this specimen is 

 believed by Dr. Bree to be the one preserved in the late Mr. 

 J. D. Hoy's collection at Boyle's Court, near Brentwood, as it 

 is labelled "killed in 1828." Mr. Cordeaux informs the 

 Editor that the collection of the late Kev. J. Mossop, of 

 Covenham, contained one which had been captured in an 

 exhausted state near Marsh Chapel, on the coast of 

 Lincolnshire, about 1840. In the ' Proceedings of the 

 Berwickshire Naturalists' Club for 1847,' it is recorded that 

 a young male was shot near Cheswick, in Northumberland, 

 on the 9th November, 1846, during a strong gale from the 

 south, being chased by Gulls, and this is preserved in Mr. 

 Brodrick's collection. The evidence of competent observers 

 led Mr. Stevenson (B. of Norfolk, ii. p. 49) to believe 

 that an example of the Cream-coloured Courser was seen 

 near Blakeney in the autumn of 1847, and another near 

 Westacre, at the same season, in the year 1855 or 1856. 



An adult specimen of this bird was shot by Mr. Walter 

 Langton, on East Down, Salisbury Plain, on the 2nd of 

 October, 1855. Mr. Langton was following a wild covey 



* A coloured figure of this specimen is given in the Appendix to Potter's 

 History of Charnwood Forest (1842). 



