. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . blished in The Field, of Feb. 28, 1891. Sincethat date one was shot at Costessy, Norfolk, , 1894, and a few others have been met within other parts of the country; one of the latestreported was shot in October 1897 near MarketLavington, an ancient haunt of the species on theWiltshire downs.^ The former existence of the Bustard in parts ofScotland is referred to by Hector Boece in 1527and Bishop Leslie in 1578. Fleming s
. A handbook of British birds, showing the distribution of the resident and migratory species in the British islands, with an index to the records of the rarer visitants . blished in The Field, of Feb. 28, 1891. Sincethat date one was shot at Costessy, Norfolk, , 1894, and a few others have been met within other parts of the country; one of the latestreported was shot in October 1897 near MarketLavington, an ancient haunt of the species on theWiltshire downs.^ The former existence of the Bustard in parts ofScotland is referred to by Hector Boece in 1527and Bishop Leslie in 1578. Fleming states ( An., p. 115) that in 1803 one was shot inMorayshire by William Young of Borough was seen in Strath Skinsdale, Sutherland- ^ Aubrey, in his notes on the Natural History of Wiltshire, writtenbetween 1656 and 1691 (ed. Britton, 1847, p. 164), has this remark: On Salisbury plaines, especially about Stonehenge, are are also in the fields above Lavington. Here in 1801 a nestcontaining two eggs was found in a wheat-field shortly after a malebustard had been captured in the neighbourhood. A. C. Smith, Birds of Wiltshire, p. BUSTARDS 161 shire, in August 1861, and at Stronsay Vale, inOrkney, a hen Bustard was shot, March 29, 1876,the first recorded visit of this species to those islands{Field, April 8 and 15, 1876, and Zool, 1876, ). The evidence bearing on the statement thatBustards were formerly coursed with greyhoundshas been critically examined by the Rev. A. in his Birds of Wiltshire, 1887, and thefact established and explained. It is worthy of note that just as the Bustard wason the verge of extinction as a breeding species inEngland it was granted a close time by Act ofParliament; but the protective legislation came toolate. In 1831 the principal Game Act was passed(l and 2 Will. 4, cap. 32), and amongst other thingsprovided (by sect. 3) that no Bustard was to be shotbetween March 1 and Sept. 1, under a penalty of
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