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interested, and more especially proprietors, should do their 

 utmost to put a stop to these nefarious practices, which, since 

 the issuing of the Orders, constitute a breach of the law, and 

 consequently can and ought to be adequately punished. 



There is another, and I think a most important way of 

 putting a stop to this illegal destruction, and that is by pre- 

 venting bird-stuffers from preserving scheduled birds or 

 selling their eggs. As an instance : The Kingfisher is now 

 one of the birds scheduled throughout Scotland. Any King- 

 fisher killed in Scotland must have been illegally killed. Why 

 should a bird-stuffer be allowed to condone the offence by 

 preserving the bird ? Nothing would sooner put a stop to 

 the killing of scheduled birds than by forbidding them to be 

 stuffed. But I suppose this would require another Act of 

 Parliament, and by the time such an Act could be passed, 

 some at least of the birds which would be benefited by it 

 would probably also have " passed." l 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE BIRDS OF THE 

 ISLANDS OF TIREE AND COLL. 



By Lieut.-Col. L. H. IRBY, F.L.S., F.Z.S., etc. 



THE "Annals of Scottish Natural History," July 1898, pp. 

 153-163, contains a list of birds observed in Tiree by Peter 

 Anderson, gamekeeper on that island. 



This list I would supplement by giving a notice of the 

 birds observed on the adjacent island of Coll, where I passed 

 some time during two springs, and in early and late autumn. 

 In Tiree, as a joint shooting tenant, I had good opportunities 

 for observation, and noticed the arrival of Sand Grouse in 

 June 1888. 



To Anderson's Tiree list may be added Common Linnet 

 (Linota cannabina), seen by both Capt. Savile Reid and 



1 Another plan would be to prevent the sale or purchase of such birds in the 

 flesh as are scheduled, or the skins or eggs of such as bear a British locality ; 

 but, of course, great difficulties would promptly arise at the mere suggestion of 

 such a drastic act, as also would many others in carrying it out if passed. J. A. 

 HARVIE-BROWN. 



