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together — all White-tailed — and three Rough-legged Buzzards along 

 with them." 



PEREGRINE FALCON. 



Falco peregrinus, Tunstall. 

 On 1st Oct., 1879, a very fine Peregrine Falcon was brought to 

 Dr. Crombie, having been shot that day near North Berwick. 



RED-LEGGED FALCON. 



Falco vespertinus, Lin. 

 One was killed in Fife on the 20th Sept., 1880, and sent for 

 preservation to Mr. Robt. Small, naturalist, Edinburgh. It after- 

 wards came into the possession of the Industrial Museum, Edin- 

 burgh, and was exhibited by Dr. Traquair at a meeting of the 

 Royal Phys. Soc, in Dec, 1880. 



HOBBY. 



Falco subbuteo, Lin. 

 There appears to have been an immigration of the Hobby to the 

 Island of Lewis. Mr. H. Greenwood of Cam House, Stornoway, 

 writes me that he "first noticed the Hobby in Sept., 1879, having 

 killed one flying overhead while grouse shooting, about 9 miles 

 inland, on the treeless moor. I subsequently shot another in 

 Oct., which was in the act of taking a wounded snipe. These 

 were both young birds. From time to time, up to the middle of 

 Nov., I saw other specimens, but was unable to approach them. 

 It was their general habit to perch on the peat stacks on the moss, 

 there being no trees, or even bushes in the island, except in the 

 Castle grounds, and a few furze hedges in the cultivated land on 

 the Eye peninsula." Mr. Greenwood sends me also a list of the 

 birds of Lewis, in which are included Merlin, Sparrow Hawk, and 

 Kestrel. Dr. Crowfoot, of Beccles, had previously informed me of 

 this unusual appearance of the Hobby in the Lews. Further 

 information on these birds will be found in the Third Report (for 

 1880-81), now nearly ready for printing. 



CHIMNEY SWALLOW. 



HlRUXDO rustica, Lin. 

 Last seen in Berwickshire by Mr. Hardy, on the 30th Sept., 

 1879. Last seen on banks of Loch Lomond, on 14th Nov., 1879. 

 When at Kinross, on the 3rd Aug., 1880, I saw immense gather- 



