86 BIRDS OF THE HUMBER DISTRICT. 



of a continental specimen was much distended with 

 food, containing a mass of leaves, many nearly entire, 

 of one of the hawk-weeds, or some closely allied spe- 

 cies, a Cockchafer (Melolontha vulgaris), and ten or 

 twelve smaller beetles (Otiorhynchus notatus) } some 

 entire, others rather broken. 



141. OTIS MACQUEENI, Gray. Macqueen's Bustard 



A native of Persia and Western India. A Lincoln- 

 shire-killed bird, and the only British specimen, was 

 shot in a stubble-field on Kirton Cliff, Kirton-in- 

 Lindsey, by Mr. G. Hanley on the 7th of October, 

 1847. It was identified by Mr. Gould, and is now 

 in the York Museum. 



GRALLATORES. CHARADRI1D&. 



142. CURSORIUS EUROP^EUS, Latham. Cream- 

 coloured Courser. 



I am aware of no recent occurrence of this rare 

 African wanderer, although its capture has been re- 

 corded in Yorkshire during the present century* 



Mr. J. H. Gurney, Jun., kindly forwarded for my 

 examination the stomach of the Lanarkshire bird, shot 

 on the 7th of October, 1868, and the first recorded 

 specimen of this species killed in Scotland. I find, 

 on reference to my note-book, that it contained ex- 

 clusively the remains of Coleopterous insects. 



* Yarrell's < British Birds/ vol. ii. 2ud ed., p. 433. 



