84 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



vation*. In Yorkshire it disappeared some years 

 later, about 1815-j-. 



On Friday, Nov. llth, 1864, a dead Bustard J was 

 found floating in Bridlington Bay by a man named 

 Welbourn, who stated that it was still quite warm at 

 the time he picked it up. The fresh skin was for- 

 warded the next morning to Mr. Boulton ; and shortly 

 afterwards the carcass arrived, unfortunately disem- 

 bowelled and trussed ready for the spit. Judging from 

 the comparative weight of this bird (13 Ibs.) and the 



* Mr. Yarrell (British Birds, vol. ii. p. 420, 2nd ed. 1845) 

 says : " In Lincolnshire, I find from Sir Charles Anderson that 

 a pair of Bustards bred a few years since on his father's farm at 

 Hawold; and a single Bustard was seen a few winters ago, and 

 was considered to be a stray bird from the Yorkshire Wolds." 



t Mr. Morris, in his ' British Birds,' vol. iv. p. 3, speaking of 

 the Great Bustard, says " that Henry Woodall, Esq., of North 

 Dalton, has informed him 'that in the year 1816 or 1817 

 Henry Dowker, Esq., of that place, killed two near there with 

 a right and left shot, and saw a third at the same time ; an egg 

 was also found, 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 to- 

 gether in one field about the same date.' E. H. Hebden, Esq., of 

 Scarborough, also informed him ' 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 

 v/as shot near Hummanby by the gamekeeper of Sir William 

 Strickland, and found a few days afterwards by the huntsman 

 of the Scarborough Harriers.' " 



I For a full account of this bird, see the ' Zoologist ' for 1865, 

 p. 9442. 



