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plumage, Mr. Boulton has little doubt that it was a 

 female of the second or third year. Another, men- 

 tioned by Mr. Stevenson in a footnote, page 30, vol. 

 ii. ' Birds of Norfolk/ was seen in April 1866 near 

 Halton Holgate, Spilsby, Lincolnshire, and a pair at 

 Candlesby, in the same neighbourhood, a few years 

 before. 



There was an extraordinary immigration of Bus- 

 tards into the southern counties of England in the 

 winter of 1870-71 *, when specimens were killed in 

 Middlesex, Somersetshire, Wiltshire, and Devon- 

 shire; also one on the coast of Northumberland, 

 about ten miles from Berwick-on-Tweed. 



140. OTIS TETRAX, Linnaeus. Little Bustard. 



Mr. Boulton writes met that a splendid mature 

 female, which he examined in the flesh, was shot by 

 W. Hudson, gamekeeper, on the last day of January 

 1862, in the parish of Leven. It is now in the pos- 

 session of Mrs. W. Wray of that place. 



Mr. Adrian, of Lincoln, had a little Bustard, shot 

 on the 21st of December, 1866, at South Clifton, 

 Nottinghamshire, just beyond the Lincolnshire bor- 

 der, by a Mr. Abraham. He informs me that he sold 

 this bird to F. Brooke, Esq., of Brauncewell, near 

 Sleaford. 



The stomach (sent me by Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun.) 



* Zoologist, s. s. 1871, pp. 2472, 2510. 

 t See also ' Zoologist ' for 1862, p. 7938. 



