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Winchester. The ‘South Downs’ of Sussex likewise furnished 
it. In Suffolk it was known, and in Norfolk, chiefly at Westacre, 
where nineteen were observed together in 1819; one also was 
met with near Burnham, and another at Icklingham; several 
used to he known to breed near Thetford, and it occurred there 
so late as 1832; one, a female, was shot at Congham in the 
autumn of 1831, near which place one was formerly obtained 
also; one near Winterton, and one, a male, near Norwich; 
as many as eleven have been formerly seen together near Gray ton; 
three females had nests and eggs at Gfreat Massingham, in 
the spring of 1832; a small flock of females was seen for 
some years in that county, the last of which was shot at 
Lexham, near Swaffham, towards the end of the year 1838; 
one had a nest at Eldon, and her two eggs being taken and 
placed under a hen, produced two male birds; another, also a 
female, was shot at Dersingham, near Lynn, early in the year 
1838. In Berkshire they used to be met with on Lambourne 
Downs, up to 1802. In Oxfordshire, one, a female, was shot 
by Mr. Aid worth, a farmer, at Gfarsington, in November, 1835; 
another was said to have been killed on Denton Common in 
December, 1830. 
In Yorkshire these great birds were formerly met with, 
and used to breed on the East-Biding Wolds; Henry Woodall, 
Esq., of North Dalton, has informed me that in the year 
1816 or 1817 James Dowker, Esq., of that place, killed two 
near there with a right and left shot, and saw a third I believe 
at the same time; a nest that had been forsaken was also 
found, with one egg in it, which is now in the Scarborough 
Museum; one of the birds shot was presented to His Majesty 
King Gfeorge the Third, through the late Dr. Blomberg; eight 
were seen together in one field about the same date: E. H. 
Hebden, Esq., of Scarborough, has also informed me of his 
having seen five Bustards on Flixton Wold about the year 
1811, and they remained there at least two years, when two 
of them were shot; the other three still continued there for 
another year or more, when two of them disappeared, leaving 
the solitary bird, which after a length of time was shot near 
Hunmanbv by the gamekeeper of Sir William Strickland, and 
found a few days afterwards by the huntsman of the Scar¬ 
borough Harriers; one was also shot near Malton, the Wolds 
near which town they used to frequent; one was shot near 
Bighton. 
In an old History of Northamptonshire it is mentioned 
