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follows: "One shot on September 6, 1892 ; a Reeve on September 

 6, 1893 ; and a third, a Reeve, on September 8, 1894 ; and, as fat- 

 as I know," he continues, " the birds were alone in each instance. 

 Probably few select a route so far to the westward." 



GREEN SANDPIPER (Totanus ochropits), p. 135. This is an 

 addition to the fauna of the area. Mr. Macculloch, taxidermist, 

 Glasgow, received one from S. Uist to be preserved, as I am informed 

 by Dr. M'Rury, /;/ lit., October 31, 1901. The specimen was 

 exhibited at a meeting of the Glasgow Nat. Hist. Soc. by Mr. 

 Macculloch. 



GREENSHANK (Totanus canescens], p. 135. All subsequent obser- 

 vations carry out our previous remarks. Mr. M'Elfrish, for instance, 

 writes that : "I do not suppose I have seen a score in the past 15 

 years. I have, however, seen a few at different times both in N. 

 Uist and Benbecula. I never saw two together, and only remember 

 having seen one during the breeding season. That was in Ben- 

 becula." Mr. C. V. A. Peel has seen small family parties of from 

 3 to 6 together occasionally (in lit}, but nobody has seen "flocks," 

 as have been often described. 1 



BLACK-TAILED GODWIT (Limosa (zgocephala], p. 136. This is an 

 addition to the fauna of the Outer Hebrides. 



Dr. M'Rury writes me that he "believes" that a good specimen 

 of the Black-tailed Godwit was shot in South Uist a year or two ago, 

 but this may well be the same specimen which, as reported to me 

 by Mr. C. V. A. Peel, that gentleman shot in Benbecula "the first 

 I have noticed in the Outer Hebrides." 



Subsequent information, however, tells me that the above are 

 different specimens. The one shot in South Uist is in the collec- 

 tion of Sir Reginald Cathcart at Grogary, as I am informed by Mr. 

 M'Elfrish. 



BAR-TAILED GODWIT (L. lapponica), p. 136. Mr. MacGillivray 

 writes : "I shot one out of a flock of about fifteen in July 1896. 

 They were not in summer plumage, and must have been young 

 birds, as they remained here all through the summer. I saw a 

 small flock remain last year also " ; and these facts are verified by 

 Mr. M'Elfrish's notes. 



1 There is an error indeed, a double blunder in "The Vertebrate Fauna 

 of the Outer Hebrides," at p. 136, under Greenshank. We say misquoting 

 Professor MacGillivray that he speaks of "astonishing numbers of Greenshanks." 

 I!ut \ve had misread and misquoted. What he did say was that " Many 

 individuals remain during the summer, when they are found by the lakes in the 

 interior, of which the number in Uist, Harris, and Lewis is astonishing/' 



And we also gave the date of his first writing as 1852, which is the correct 

 date of his vol. iv. of his " British Birds " (loc. cit. p. 322). But the first printing 

 of the passage was an original contribution to Audubon's "American Ornitho- 

 logical Bibliography,'' vol. iii. p. 483, which gives the earlier date of 1835. 

 I have to thank Mr. Win. Evans for the above corrections. 



