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There may be some connection between Fedoa and the name 
Doe-bird, which, as pointed out by Mr. Harting, is in common 
use for the Godwit in the United States.* 
1520, [January 1] Item paid to John Cawston for 
a curlewe and a ffeddowe, vii d. 
1537. [May 6] Item paid to him [John Syff] for iiij 
ffedours, viij®. 
1550. [December 17] Item paid for a ffeddew, iij*. 
1550. [Dec. 19] Item paid for iii ffeddewes, viii d. 
This ends the shore-frequenting species, but there are 
still sundry entries cf “ grete byrds” and “ litell byrdes,” 
which are not to be identified. In one place we read of 
“a spowe & il grete byrdes,” in another of “ii curlewes & 
other small byrdes,” in another of “ v teles & x litill byrdes.” 
All these may have been from the shore, but in one 
passage where “ byrds”’ come between chickens and eggs, 
and that in the month of June, something domestic would 
seem to be intended. 
The Great Bustard. Nine brought to the Hall.—There is a 
good deal to be learnt from these old paper books about the 
Great Bustard, which held out in Norfolk after it had become 
extinct inevery othercounty. It is true that it is only named 
twice in the Accounts in the “ Archaeologia,’”’ but these are 
very incomplete. In the unprinted Accounts there are six 
other mentions of the Bustard, which—as extracted by 
Mr. le Strange, with the dates—must be given in full :— 
1520. [April 29] Item, a pygge, ij capons & a busterd 
of gist. 
1527. [April 23] Itm., a bustard & iij mallards kylled 
with ye crosbowe. 
[July 11] A crane & a busterd kylled with ye 
crosbowe. 
[November] It. viij malards, a bustard & j 
hernsewe kylled wt ye crosbowe. 
1528. [January 1] viilj malardes a bustard & j 
heronsewe kylled with ye crosbowe. 
1537. Itm. in reward the xxv day of July to Baxter’s 
servant of Stannewyk for bryngging of ij yong busterds ij d. 
* See Nuttall’s ‘‘ Manual of the Ornithology of the United States ” (IL., 
p. 174), and Samuels’s “ Birds of New England ” (p. 464). 
