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the " Proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists^ Club" 1879, 

 p. 527, entitled " Miscellanea, Extracts from Correspondence, &c." 

 I am much indebted to Mr. Hardy for various other items, and a 

 most interesting correspondence, besides a copy of this paper. 



Mr. Robert Gray has "Ornithological Notes" (op. cit., 498), 

 which are also useful in this connection. 



Mr. George Muirhead contributes " Additional Notes on Birds 

 in the Neighbourhood of Paxton" (op. cit., p. 503). 



Mr. T. H. Gibb also contributes some "Notes on Birds in 

 1878-79," from the neighbourhood of Alnwick, on the Eastern 

 Border (op. cit.) 



Mr. Robert Service has a later and more complete paper than 

 that the title of which is given above, viz., " Effects of the 

 Weather of the past Twelve Months upon Animal Life," referring 

 principally to the South-west of Scotland. This paper is reported 

 in the Dumfries papers of 8th and 12th November, 1879, and will 

 appear in extenso in the Transactions of the Dumfries and Galloway 

 Xatural History and Antiquarian Society, session 1879-80, in due 

 course. I have made copious extracts from it, but those interested 

 in the minutiae of this subject ought to consult it separately. 



Mr. Hastings, Naturalist, Dumfries, read a paper on " Rare 

 Birds with the Hard Winter," at meeting of the Nat. Hist, and 

 Archaeol. Soc. of Dumfries, on 5th December, 1879. 



The Duke of Argyll had a letter in the Times about the last 

 week of December, 1879, on the subject, and some correspondence 

 resulted therefrom. I am sorry I did not have an opportunity of 

 seeing this. 



Various scattered notices of the effects of this severe winter will 

 also be found in the local newspapers- and journals, such as the 

 Inverness Courier, Dundee Advertiser, Oban Times, and others. 

 From these sources, together with private correspondence and a 

 small share of personal observation, and from investigations made 

 during the summer and spring of 1879, I have taken the items 

 hereafter mentioned under the headings "Migration of the Autumn 

 of 1878 f " Journal of the Winter of 1878-79 ;" and " Observations 

 on the various Species which came under notice ;" and the 

 whole paper is intended to include notes upon the species up to 

 the date of reading this paper, viz., the 30th September, 1879. 



I repeat, this report is very incomplete, but it is only by united 

 work that a large amount of such statistics can be collected. 



