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no time to give Her Grace rejoicing with her 

 pleasant song. The Queen did appoint 6 of your 

 Dotterels for her supper, 6 for Monday dinner, and 6 

 for supper. My Lord of Rochford (the Queen's 

 brother) presented them himself, and showed her 

 how they w^ere killed now at 12 of the clock in 

 Dover ; of the which she was glad, and spake many 

 good words towards your Ladyship's good report, as 

 I was informed by them that stood by." On this 

 subject I also find in a work entitled ' A Second 

 Edition of the Anecdotes and History of Cranbourn 

 Chase, by William Chafin, Clerk,' kindly lent to me 

 by my friend Professor Alfred Newton, a story of 

 how the author in November 1751 bagged five 

 Dotterels out of some ten or twelve on a piece of 

 ground that had been sown with turnips, between 

 Andover and Salisbury, how he was greeted from a 

 post-chaise by a Mr. Evelyn, who was " hastening to 

 town to be in waiting on Prince Frederick (' Father 

 of our King ') " ; how Mr. Evelyn begged for one of 

 the birds as a present for the Prince, and went on 

 his way " in high glee " with two brace. It is re- 

 markable that Dotterels should be found in England 

 so late as November, and still more remarkable that 

 the author on the same day put up and pursued 

 twenty-five Bustards without success ; he states in 

 conclusion that he never had an opportunity of 

 renewing the wild-goose chase, but believes " such a 

 number of Bustards will never be again seen together 

 in England." I fear that if Her Gracious Majesty 

 Queen Victoria, or the Prince of Wales, should now- 

 a-days order Dotterels for any particular occasion, it 

 would puzzle the most loyal and devoted of subjects 

 to carry out the command, for this species has 



