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he had heard Bustards once existed, and that it was eaten 

 in the house, but he had no recollection of having tasted 

 it, or indeed anything more about it. Dr. Thompson 

 graduated B.A. in 1832, and supposing him to have been 

 then twenty-two years of age, the event must have happened 

 about 18 1 6 or 1817. 



'In October, 1854, Mr. Barnard Henry Foord, of Foxholes, 

 near Scarborough, then aged twenty-five, told me he remem- 

 bered having seen Bustards — the last was at Foxholes 

 about nineteen years before (/>., 1835). H^s father once 

 saw eleven together. He had heard his uncle speak of 

 running Bustards with greyhounds, as if he had been 

 present at the time. 



'This Mr. Foord is, I believe, now dead. I was very 

 much struck at the time by the nature of his evidence, for 

 I had believed that the bird was extinct in Yorkshire 

 before 1835 — and I remember pressing him particularly 

 with questions on this point ; but he persisted in the truth 

 of his statement. I confess I was not, nor am I now, 

 satisfied with it, though I am unable to suggest any 

 explanation of the difficulty — for even if he had been a 

 year or two older than he said (and he could not have been 

 more), it would still remain.' 



288. Himantopus candidus Bonnat Black-winged Stilt 



(P- 73)- 

 Miss Hall, of Scorborough, has informed Mr. Stephenson 

 that the specimens now in his possession were shot about 

 thirty years ago in Aike Carr, by Lord Hotham's keeper 

 (John Stephenson, MS.). 



289. Phalaropus hyperboreus (Z.). Red-necked Phala- 



rope (p. 73)- 

 Tees mouth, four in 1854 (Rev. H. Smith, MS.). 



ERRATUM. 

 Page 6, hne 4 from the bottom, For 'PINE' read 'BEECH.' 



On pages xxxiii and 74, the melanic variety sabini has, 

 through pure inadvertence, been ascribed to the Double 

 Snipe instead of to the Common Snipe. 



