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later in the day and shot the other. A third was said to have been afterwards
seen in the neighbourhood (H. Stevenson—34. 4369). One was seen for more
than a week frequenting the large fields round Ramsey and Little Oakley
about Nov. 21st, 1882. Though often shot at, it escaped (Kerry—40 vii. 119).
A female was shot on the Marsh Farm, Tillingham, by Mr. Robert Page
early in September, 1885 (29. Sept. 19). It is still in his possession.
[Macqueen's Bustard : Honiara macqueeni.
At a sale held at the Argyll Street Auction Rooms, London, in 1871,
Lot 689 was described as " A Macqueen's Bustard shot at Harwich in 1823,
and preserved by Hall of Finsbury Square." There is not the slight-
est reason to suppose that this bird was shot in England, as may be
gathered from a note by Mr. J. H. Gurney jun., in the Zoologist (34.
4763). In all probability, the bird was the one described in Mar-
tin Barry's catalogue as "obtained in company with the Little
Bustard," namely, the one recorded by Yarrell as having been shot at
the same time and place. Other gross mis-statements in the same
catalogue were exposed in the Ibis in 1863 (p. 477)]