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The Shrike is very rare in the Loch Lomond district, not more 

 than four or live specimens having ever occurred. 



Mr. William Colquhoun informs me that he once got one at 

 Rossdhu in a snare set for small birds — the Shrike being caught 

 when darting at a bird in the noose. 



CAPERCAILLIE. 



TETRAO UROGALLUS, Lin. 



Tins species has, since 1876, taken a firm footing in the district, 

 specimens having been obtained on one or two occasions. It may 

 now be classed with the residents, as a pair bred in the Buchanan 

 Woods (Stirlingshire) in 1878. It is worthy of remark that all 

 the birds shot have been females. 



RED GROUSE. 



LAGOPUS SCO TIC US (Latham). 



An albino of this species was shot by Mr. R. D. Mackenzie 

 of Caldarran, on Dumbarton Moor, on the 14th of August, 1879. 

 The bird was pure white, with the exception of one or two dark 

 feathers on the back. It was a bird of the year, and all the rest 

 of the covey were of the usual colour.* 



WOOD SANDPIPER. 



TO TAN US GL AREOLA (Lin.). 



This species may now almost be considered as a regular autumn 

 visitant, a second specimen having been obtained at Ross Priory 

 on 4th October, 1878. Although this is only the second record 

 of the Wood Sandpiper, yet there is every reason to believe that 

 the bird is more common than is usually supposed, its likeness to 

 many of the other Sandpipers causing it to escape notice. 



RUFF. 



MACHETES PUGNAX (Lin.). 



I am informed by Sir George H. Leith Buchanan that a Ruff 

 was shot by the Duke of Montrose, in September last (1879), on 

 the shore of the Loch near the mouth of the Endrick, on the 



* Four albinos were seen several times by Mr. Mackenzie on the same 

 moor in the following season, August, 1880. 



