BIRDS OP THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 83 



of the others (see Zoologist, 1870, p. 2307) . Mr. 

 Alington some years since fell in with a large bevy 

 in the parish of Thoresway, on our Wolds. 



Plentiful in North Lincolnshire in the autumn after 

 the hot dry summer of 1870, the year of the great 

 Franco-Prussian war in one instance three brace 

 having been killed in one day to a single gun, and 

 eight brace falling during the same season to another 

 sportsman on a farm near Caistor, on which land two 

 or three large bevies occurred, doubtless bred there, as 

 several eggs had been taken in the same locality 

 during the summer. 



138. ORTYX VIRGINIANUS (Linnaeus). Virginian 



Quail. 



Mr. Boulton had a fine male in his collection, shot 

 a few years since at Cottingham, near Beverley. 



BASOEES. STRUTHIONID&. 



139. OTIS TARDA, Linnaeus. Great Bustard. 



Formerly inhabiting alike the desolate wolds of 

 Lincolnshire and Yorkshire, this magnificent spe- 

 cies has passed away, leaving in this county scarcely 

 a tradition of its presence. It probably became ex- 

 tinct as a resident in Lincolnshire about the com- 

 mencement of the present century, at which period 

 the " Wolds " were enclosed and brought into culti- 



