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from D. W. Crompton, Esq., and one of the two was 

 killed. Very early in the same year, 1839, one specimen 

 was killed at Boythorp, Sledmere Wolds, near Scar- 

 borough, of which Mr. Hawkridge sent me notice. Mr. 

 Selby has recorded two instances of the occurrence of this 

 rare bird in Northumberland, which becomes still more rare 

 on proceeding northward, and T. M. Grant, Esq., of Edin- 

 burgh, has supplied me with a notice of one killed near 

 Montrose, in December 1833, which is the only one, I am 

 aware of, that has been killed in Scotland. Professor Nils- 

 son ranks the Little Bustard among the rarest of the oc- 

 casional stragglers to Sweden. It has been recorded as 

 killed in Lapland, on the authority of Acerbi, but AcerWs 

 description proves that his bird was the Wood Grouse.* 



Pennant, in his Arctic Zoology, says that the Little 

 Bustard is frequent in the southern and south-western parts 

 of Russia, migrating in small flocks, and is found also on 

 the deserts of Tartary. It is a rare bird in Germany, more 

 common in France, and is found in Spain, Provence, Sar- 

 dinia, Italy, and Sicily. It is found in North Africa, Tur- 

 key, and Greece. Specimens of the Little Bustard have 

 been sent to the Zoological Society from Erzeroom by 

 Keith Abbott, Esq., and by Messrs. Dickson and Ross; 

 the latter gentlemen in their notes state that this bird is 

 very common in ploughed fields on the skirts of the marsh. 

 M. Menetries, in his Catalogue, observes, that this species 

 is very common at the foot of Mount Caucasus, and par- 

 ticularly so towards the shores of the Caspian Sea, Near 

 Baiku, this author says, I saw in December immense flocks 

 of these birds going in the direction from east to west ; of 

 all those seen, or of those procured and examined, not a 

 single male had any black on the throat. 



* Travels through Sweden, Finland, and Lapland, vol. ii. page 229. 



