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has also been placed in the Perthshire Society's collection of local 

 birds. — H. M. Drummond Hay, Seggieden, Perth. 



Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca) in North Ronaldshay. — Mr. 



Allan Briggs, in a letter to Mr. R. Cook, dated 15th November 

 1892, says : "A Snowy Owl has been seen by several people here. It 

 appeared early in this month, and remained for a day or two. This 

 is most likely the same bird I saw at Quendale on the 30th October " 

 (see p. 17). — J. A. Harvie-Brown. 



The Goshawk (Astur palumbarius) in Mull. — On Wednesday, 

 9th November, while out woodcock-shooting in the Glenforsa estate 

 of Mull, I saw a Goshawk fly over. Its peculiar appearance 

 attracted the attention of my cousin, Mr. C. Akroyd, with whom I 

 was shooting, and also the keeper, both of whom are well acquainted 

 with Buzzards, Peregrines, etc., but neither of whom had ever seen a 

 Goshawk before. — T. E. Buckley, Inverness. , 



Spotted Crake {Porzana maruetta) near Moffat. — On the 9th of 

 October last I shot a spotted crake in a marsh near Moffat. I have 

 been informed by Messrs. Small and Son, George Street, Edinburgh, 

 that it is by no means common, though they have another for stuffing 

 from Forfarshire. — Adam Fyfe, Moffat. 



Quail (Coturnix communis) in Wigtownshire in 1892. — In the 



late spring, Mr. James Cowan, farmer, Sandmill, Stoneybrook, flushed 

 a bird on that farm. And during the second week of October, Mr. 

 Weir, gamekeeper, Lochnaw, shot a fine old bird on the farm of 

 Glengyre, Kirkcolm. It rose from among some cabbages in a field 

 of greencrop. The bird, which I saw, was a very fine specimen ; but 

 had been much shattered by the charge. — P. Adair, Edinburgh. 



Great Snipe {Gal/ina^o major) near Thurso. — A solitary Snipe 

 was shot by Mr. Arkwright at Westfield, near here, on the 24th of 

 August last. — Lewis Dunbar, Thurso. 



On the occurrence of the Red-breasted Snipe (Macrorhampkus 

 ^riscus) in Argyllshire. — in the notice of the Red-breasted Snipe 

 in tlie " Fauna of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides," it is stated that two 

 specimens of this bird have been killed in Argyllshire in 1891. 

 The bird I exhibited at the meeting of the Zoological Society, 1st 

 D cember 1891, as having been killed near Crinan, is the same as that 

 which is recorded as being shot at Poltalloch by a son of Colonel 

 Malcolm. The mistake has arisen from confusing the two localities. 

 The actual place where this bird was shut was some distance above 

 the bridge over the river Add. in what is called the old river (a former 

 bed of the Add), near smiic cottages < ailed I )alnahassoc, on the 



Poltalloch estate, but nearer Crinan than the mansion of Poltalloch. 

 Mr. Seebohm considers this specimen to be one of the short-billed 

 race I I/, scolopaceus) from the west <»t the Rocky Mountains, and 

 breeding in Alaska. — Edward 11\mm o>\. South Kensington. 



