GREAT BUSTARD. 



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1818, I remember to have seen a pair of Great Bustards, 

 male and female, and very fine specimens, exposed for sale 

 by Mr. Townsend, the poulterer, in Charles-street, St. 

 Jameses Square. These birds were sold for twelve guineas, 

 and were preserved by Mr. Leadbeater for the purchaser. 

 These were the only examples of the Great Bustard I 

 remember to have seen exposed for sale in the meat. Mr. 

 Townsend bought both the birds in Leadenhall Market, 

 and both of them exhibited marks of having been trapped 

 and caught by the legs. 



A remarkable anatomical peculiarity in the male of the 

 Great Bustard, first discovered by Dr. James Douglas, of 

 the College of Physicians in London, is thus described by 

 Edwards in his Gleanings, with a figure. "It is a pouch 



