. Notes on the birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood . is country, and even manifested adisposition to remain here. One was shot in ThorneyFen, where two or three more are believed to be stillat large, and it is to be hoped will be left Holyw^ell, of Wentworth Street, has two, whichhe has been stuffing. The above is the only information which I havehitherto been able to obtain concerning the occur- 286 THE BIRDS OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE rence of this singular species within our no personal acquaintance with this bird in awild state, we must refer our readers to t
. Notes on the birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood . is country, and even manifested adisposition to remain here. One was shot in ThorneyFen, where two or three more are believed to be stillat large, and it is to be hoped will be left Holyw^ell, of Wentworth Street, has two, whichhe has been stuffing. The above is the only information which I havehitherto been able to obtain concerning the occur- 286 THE BIRDS OF NORTHAMPTONSHIRE rence of this singular species within our no personal acquaintance with this bird in awild state, we must refer our readers to the articleabove mentioned, and also to that by Mr. HenryStevenson, in his Birds of Norfolk, vol. i. pp. 376-404 ; in these excellent papers will be found fullaccounts of the occurrences of this wanderer in ourown Islands and on the continent of Europe, as wellas details of its habits in its native haunts in thevast plains of Asia. We have a fine pair of thisspecies, stuffed, in our collection, which were ob-tained near Great Yarmouth in the summer of Sand-Grroiase. We are well acquainted with the two Europeanspecies of Sand-Grouse, viz. Pterodes arenarius andP. cdchata, both of which are common in many partsof Spain, but have not, as yet, been included in theranks of British birds. The habits of Pallass Sand-Grouse appear to resemble closely those of the otherspecies of the family, all of which are lovers oftreeless wastes, remote from the habitation of man. Since the above article first appeared in print, thiscountry has again been visited, in 1888, by largenumbers of Pallass Sand-Grouse, and I here recordthe meagre information that has reached me as to its AXD NEIGHBOURHOOD. 287 occurrence in Northamptonshire during that the close of the year above mentioned, LordBurghley informed me that two Sand-Grouse hadbeen killed during the previous summer upon LordExeters property near Stamford, and put me intocommunication with a gamekeeper named JohnMunton, who in repl
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