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Honey Buzzard in Shetland. A male Honey Buzzard was 

 seen at Lerwick, Unst, on 25th May, and on the 28th it was brought 

 to me in the flesh, and I have presented it to the Royal Scottish 

 Museum. The bird was in adult plumage, and a fine specimen. J. 

 Edmondston Saxby, Hilligarth, Baltasound. 



Osprey in Tay. On the evening of 10th May, I saw an Osprey 

 on the Firth of Tay. Our woods run right down to the Firth, and 

 I put it up four times off various oak trees. The last time I saw the 

 bird, it got up within twenty yards of me, and I refrained from 

 shooting at two hooded crows that were bothering the osprey for 

 fear of frightening it. I am quite certain of the bird, as I have shot 

 them in British Columbia, and saw them daily at one place there 

 where I lived for a year. Charles S. Wedderburn, Birkhill, Cupar- 

 Fife. 



An Unrecorded Heronry in "Dee." I note with pleasure 

 that Mr Hugh Boyd Watt {ante, p. 19) has in view a further article 

 on Scottish heronries. I wish first to bring my local (" Dee ") list 

 up to date, by recording a heronry omitted from all previous lists. 

 This colony is at Culquoich, Strathdon. My informant was Mr 

 A. G. G. Ellis, Glenkindie, who thought there were half a dozen or 

 more nests in 191 2, but could not say whether the heronry was new 

 or old. A. Landsborough Thomson, Aberdeen. 



Geese struck by Lightning in Dumfriesshire. On 19th 

 March 19 13, nineteen Barnacle-Geese (Bernicla leucopsis) were 

 struck by lightning and killed near the farm of Aldermanseat, which 

 is about three miles north of the easternmost extremity of the 

 Solway Firth. I was unable to visit the spot till 15th May, when I 

 was supplied with the following facts by Mr Andrew Mackie, the 

 neighbouring farmer of Aitchisonsbank. A severe thunderstorm, 

 accompanied by hail, continued throughout the afternoon of 

 Wednesday, 19th March, and about 5 p.m. it became so dark that 

 two labourers, who were working in a field not far from the house, 

 thought it high time to make for shelter. Just as they came to this 

 decision, a vivid flash of lightning dazzled them, and they took to 

 their heels and ran, hearing as they did so strange sounds as of 

 heavy bodies falling to the ground. They were considerably alarmed, 

 and early next morning visited the scene of their adventure. They 

 then found several dead Barnacle-Geese lying about in the fields, 

 and they concluded these had been struck by lightning while flying 

 past the farm ; thus they were able to account for the sounds which 

 had alarmed them the previous evening. Nineteen carcases in all 

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