

2 . OrP'EA.T BUSTAED. 



Winchester. The 'South Downs' of Sussex likewise furnished 

 it. In Suffolk it was known, and in Norfolk, chiefly at Westacre, 

 where nineteen were observed together in 1819; one also was 

 met with near Burnham, and another at Icklingham; several 

 used to be known to breed near Thetford, and it occurred there 

 so late as 1832; one, a female, was shot at Congham in the 

 autumn of 1831, near which place one was formerly obtained 

 also; one near Winterton, and one, a male, near Norwich; 

 as many as eleven have been formerly seen together near Gayton ; 

 three females had nests and eggs at Great Massingham, in 

 the spring of 1832; a small flock of females was seen for 

 some years in that county, the last of which was shot at 

 Lexham, near Swaffham, towards the end of the year 1838; 

 one had a nest at Eldon, and her two eggs being taken and 

 placed under a hen, produced two male birds; another, also a 

 female, was shot at Dersingham, near Lynn, early in the year 

 1838. In Berkshire they used to be met with on Lambourne 

 Downs, up to 1802. In Oxfordshire, one, a female, was shot 

 by Mr. Aldworth, a farmer, at Garsington, in November, 1835 ; 

 another was said to have been killed on Denton Common in 

 December, 1830. 



In Yorkshire these great birds were formerly met with, 

 and used to breed on the East-Riding Wolds; Henry Woodall, 

 Esq., of North Dalton, has informed me that in the year 

 1816 or 1817 James Dowker, Esq., of that place, killed two 

 near there with a right and left shot, and saw a third I believe 

 at the same time; a nest that had been forsaken was also 

 found, with one egg in it, which is now in the Scarborough 

 Museum; one of the birds shot was presented to His Majesty 

 King George the Third, through the late Dr. Blomberg; eight 

 were seen together in one field about the same date: E. H. 

 Hebden, Esq., of Scarborough, has also informed me of his 

 having seen five Bustards on Flixton Wold about the year 

 1811, and they remained there at least two years, when two 

 of them were shot; the other three still continued there for 

 another year or more, when two of them disappeared, leaving 

 the solitary bird, which after a length of time was shot near 

 Hunmanby by the gamekeeper of Sir William Strickland, and 

 found a few days afterwards by the huntsman of the Scar- 

 borough Harriers; one was also shot near Malton, the Wolds 

 near which town they used to frequent; one was shot near 

 Righton. 



In an old History of Northamptonshire it is mentioned 



