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blame for the mistake, which I can only account for as an act of 

 sheer forgetfulness, and I am even yet at a loss to know how I 

 could have committed the error. However, I fully apologise to Mr. 

 Noble for having so led him astray in the matter. J. A. HARVIE 

 BROWN. 



Hawfinch at Peterhead. A male Hawfinch (Coccothraustes 



vulgaris) was shot at Grange gardens about the 2oth of July, and 

 has been presented to the Peterhead Museum. It frequented the 

 garden two days before being shot. I am not aware of the 

 Hawfinch being previously taken at Peterhead. WILLIAM SERLE, 



DUDDINGSTON. 



Great Grey Shrike in "Forth."- I am able to record a specimen, 

 a male, of the Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor) shot in May 

 1904, and sent in the flesh for preservation to Mr. Crockart, 

 Gunmaker, Stirling, on i2th May. It was sent from Devonshaw, 

 near the Rumbling Bridge. I saw the specimen to-day isth 

 September 1904. J. A. HARVIE-BROWN. 



Wryneck (lynx torquilla) in East Lothian. On the gth of 

 May last a Wryneck was found dead on the railway immediately to 

 the east of Dunbar and taken to Mr. D. Bruce, who kindly sent it 

 on to me. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Capereaillie in Peebles-shire. The following facts regarding an 

 occurrence of Capereaillie (Tetrao urogalhts) in Peebles-shire may be 

 of interest to you. I first heard of it from Mr. Watson of Culter- 

 allers, who said that David Jackson of Unthank had been land- 

 steward at Netherurd at the time, and could speak to the facts. I 

 wrote to Mr. Jackson, whose information I give below. He has 

 since called here and confirmed his letters, and further says that 

 the birds have now altogether disappeared. 



I may say that for the last two years I have been trying to put 

 down Capereaillie here, but without success. In 1902 they were 

 hatched under domestic fowls, and all died. Last year they were set 

 under gray hens, but all the nests were destroyed by vermin. 



This year they were put under gray hens, but have not yet 

 hatched. I have my doubts as to whether they will do in this 

 part of the country, owing to the scarcity of wild berries. On the 

 4th June Mr. Jackson wrote me as follows : 



"In reply to yours of the 3ist re Capereaillie at Netherurd, I 

 first noticed a cock bird about twenty-five years ago, but the hen 

 may have been there too, for a year or two later I came upon a 

 nest, and since then they have nested in the Netherurd woods. 

 When I left eight years ago there were two cocks and one hen, to 

 my knowledge, and the latter was sitting on eggs when I left. I 

 am, yours respectfully, DAVID JACKSON."- -HENRY B. MARSHALL, 

 Rachan, Broughton. 



