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the prices of various kinds of game provided for a feast 

 given in the Inner Temple Hall on the 16th of Octo- 

 ber 1555, the third year of Philip and Mary, is not 

 without ornithological interest; namely, Bustards 10s. 

 each; Swans 10s. Cranes 10s. Pheasants 4s. Turkeys 4s. 

 Turkey chicks 4s. Capons 2s. 6d. Pea chickens . 2s. Par- 

 tridges Is. 4d. Plovers 6d. Curlews Is. Sd. Godwits 2s. 6d. 

 Knots Is. Pigeons Is. 6d. a dozen; Larks 8d. a dozen; 

 Woodcocks 7s. Sd. a dozen ; Snipes 2s. a dozen. To return, 

 however, to the Bustard in the county of Norfolk, I find 

 Mr. Salmon has recorded that u in the spring of 1832, three 

 females resorted to Great Massingham Heath, in Norfolk, 

 for incubation. Their eggs consisted of two pairs and a 

 single one. These were taken away, under the impression 

 that as there was no male bird, they were good for nothing ; 

 but the male is said to live apart after the female is im- 

 pregnated." From Mr. William Borrer, jun., I learn 

 that a very fine female was brought to him, which was 

 killed on the 26th of January, 1838, whilst feeding in a 

 turnip field at Dersingham, near Castle Rising. The base 

 of each of the feathers on the breast of this bird was of 

 a delicate rose colour. 



In Lincolnshire, I find from Charles Anderson, Esq., 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, which were for a long time a favourite 

 locality for them. Mr. Denny, of Leeds, sent me word 

 that a townsman of his remembers seeing Bustards on the 

 wolds at the beginning of the present century. About the 



Monasticon Anglicanum^ in reference to an early notice of Pheasants, by which 

 it appears that the Abbot of Amesbury obtained a license to kill Hares and 

 Pheasants in the first year of the reign of Henry the First, which commenced on 

 the 2nd of August, 1100. 



