66 BIRDS. 



C. W. Strickland, of Hildenley, and Mr. J. W. Woodall, 

 of Scarborough. From such of these materials as have 

 been published, the numerous statements given in books 

 have been compiled. 



At the northern extremity of the Wolds, the chief 

 and last haunt of the Great Bustard seems to have 

 been about Flixton, Hunmanby, and Reighton. It 

 was here — as she informed Mr. Boynton — that the 

 late Miss Charlotte Rickaby, of Bridlington Quay, when 

 a girl, counted fifteen Great Bustards in a field while 

 riding with her father from Bridlington Quay to Flam- 

 borough, early in the present century ; and Sir C. W. 

 Strickland informs me that his grandfather, Sir William 

 Strickland, used to say that he could remember a flock of 

 them on the Wolds between Reighton and Bridlington, 

 of about five-and-twenty, and that the last of them was 

 eaten at Boynton. A farmer living at Reighton in 1830 

 told Sir Charles Anderson that when he was a boy flocks 

 of eight and ten together were found all over the district. 

 Mr. Hebden states that to the best of his recollection it 

 would be about 181 1 that he first saw the five large Bus- 

 tards on Flixton Wold, that number continuing there at 

 least two years, when two were shot; the remaining three 

 still continued on the same wold for at least one year, 

 when two disappeared, leaving the solitary bird, which, 

 after a length of time, was severely wounded by Sir Wm. 

 Strickland's keeper, and found some days afterwards in a 

 turnip field near Hunmanby, by the huntsman of the 

 Scarborough Harriers, and secured. Mr. A. S. Bell adds 

 that this bird was brought to Scarborough, and cooked at 

 a supper given by the hunt (Zool., 1870, p. 2063). This, 

 however, would hardly be the last Bustard, unless indeed 

 the solitary individual survived its former companions for 

 no less than fifteen years. Mr. J. W. Woodall informs me 

 that about 1825 one was run over and killed between 

 Folkton and Hunmanby. Sir Charles Anderson has a 

 stuffed specimen, shot in 1825 at Hunmanby, and in 1828, 

 while shooting on Mr. Osbaldeston's property at that place 

 he saw a fine cock. This would, no doubt, be the identical 

 bird seen in Grindale Field by Mr. John Milner, of Middle- 

 dale, Kilham, he thinks about the year 1828, for — as he 

 informed Mr. Boynton — it was some time after he left 

 school in 1825, and at the time he was riding with his 

 father, who died in 1830. Mr. Boynton was also told by 

 the late Mrs. Metcalfe, of Bridlington Quay, that she and 



