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mentioned are some of these : it shows a marvellous instinct their 

 making towards the sea." So far as I can gather from inquiry from 

 keepers on other estates in the neighbourhood, no Red-legged 

 Partridges have been introduced into the district except those 

 mentioned by Mr. Jalland. THOMAS F. DEWAR, Arbroath. 



Spotted Crake in Argyle. I am indebted to Mr. J. Marshall, Kil- 

 martin, for information regarding a Spotted Crake (Porzana marnettd] 

 in his possession, which was shot about the middle of August 1893, 

 on the marshes along the banks of the river Add. To satisfy me 

 as to its identification, Mr. Marshall has kindly sent me the bird, 

 which proves to be a young one. JOHN PATERSON, Glasgow. 



Great Snipe and Gray Plover in East Renfrewshire. I have 

 already to record two additions to the list of East Renfrewshire 

 birds published in the last number of "Annals." On 2-jih 

 September last Mr. Allan Gilmour, Yr., shot a young male Great 

 Snipe (Gallinago major] on an irrigated meadow on his Eaglesham 

 property. The bird was a perfect ball of fat, and weighed, I 

 am informed, gf ozs. I exhibited it at the October meeting of the 

 Natural History Society of Glasgow. It is now in Mr. Gilmour's 

 collection. In a letter to the "Glasgow Herald" dated 3rd October 

 Mr. Gilmour stated that he had killed over 4000 Snipe in the past 

 28 years, and during that period had only twice seen this species 

 shot before "one a young bird, in July 1869, on Eaglesham; and 

 another, also a young bird, on i3th September iSSo, on Dunstaffnage. 

 Both were too badly shot to preserve." A Gray Plover (Squatarola 

 helvetica) was observed several times by Mr. John Robertson at 

 Balgray Dam in the end of September and early October last. 

 JOHN PATERSON, Glasgow. 



Birds of Loch Lomond : A Correction. I find in the recently 

 published " Guide to the Natural History of Loch Lomond " that 

 there is a very stupid mistake in the heading to note on the Ruby- 

 crowned Wren at page 28. By some inexplicable mistake it 

 has been printed " Ruby-crowned Wren or Fire-crested Wren, Regulus 

 ignicapillus (Brehm.)." It should have been Ruby-crowned Wren, 

 Reguhts calendula (Linn.). I shall be glad if you will insert this 

 correction in the "Annals." JAMES LUMSDEN, Arden. 



The Sandwich Tern and the Whimbrel on the Berwickshire 

 Coast. On several occasions during the first fortnight of September 

 1895 I observed three or four Sandwich Terns (Sterna cantiaca), 

 evidently a family group, flying to and fro just off the coast between 

 Eyemouth and St. Abb's. Once or twice I saw them alight on some 

 rocks that were uncovered at low water. During the same fortnight 

 \Vh'm\}x:e\(lVitmeniusphceopus)'WQrQ. also several times observed passing 

 south along the coast the unmistakable call always serving to draw 

 my attention to them. On the 2nd of September I watched one come 



