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for some time. In September I was so fortunate as to procure 
one in Unst, the most northerly of the Shetland Isles ; it had 
been killed a few weeks before by Mr. L. Edmondston, a young 
gentleman well versed in the ornithology of that country, and 
from whose testimony, as well as that of several gentlemen of the 
Isles, I have not the smallest doubt of its breeding and remain- 
ing the whole year in the mountainous precipices of both that 
island and Yell: they are seen there at the end of the summer in 
company with their young, three or four together; the latter are | 
then brown. "Theirflight, which I had several opportunities of 
observing, was more light and buoyant than any of the hawks, 
but not so much so as. our common barn owl. ‘They prey by 
day on various animals : one wounded on the Isle of Balta dis- 
gorged a young rabbit whole ; and that now in my possession had 
in its stomach a sandpiper with the plumage entire. | 
Trinca CALIDRIS. 
Tringa Calidris. Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 252. 19. Lath. Ind. 
“Oni. i. 292.9. 2. —— ue 
Dusky Sandpiper. Lath. Syn. v. p. 174.18. 
La Maubeche. Brisson Ornith. v. p. 226. t. 20. RT 
One of the specimens now before the Society was bought from 
among several at a poulterer's in May last ; the other was shot by 
Mr. William Strang, of the Island of Sanda, on the 20th of Au- 
gust last, out of a small flock on the edge of the great Lake Sten- 
nis, on the mainland of Orkney. I received it several days after 
it was killed, but in too putrid a state to examine the contents 
of the stomach or the colour of the eyes. It was unknown in 
Orkney. | | | 
HIRUNDO 
