THE FIELD FROM THE ARCHIVES
ON THE FORMER OCCURRENCE OF THE BUSTARD IN YORKSHIRE
1878 A very remarkable shot at bustards was made with the aid of a stalking horse and a big gun near Sledmere, in 1808. The precise details of this occurrence have only recently come to light. For this information we are indebted to Lieut-Gen AC Cooke, who writes: The following letter may, I think, be of great interest to sportsmen and naturalists. It gives an account of
