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observation and careful collating of information. If they are 

 erroneous, that has yet to be proved ; and there is little use, 

 I fancy, disputing them until proof or disproof be 

 obtained, which has not yet been achieved by other collections 

 of facts. 



Finally, it is not without some interest to find distinct 

 negatives of summer appearances at any localities on the 

 western watershed except those bracketed ones for Loch Awe- 

 side (Argyll). It is also interesting to receive negatives 

 from the following districts — Wigtonshire, a great part of 

 western Kirkcudbright, and the whole area of Clyde, both 

 north and south of the waterway or firth ; and to observe 

 how few records of even autumn and winter occurrences have 

 turned up — and that notwithstanding the fact that there are 

 active and capable observers located there. And it is also 

 interesting to know that, according to Mr. W. Evans and 

 other local observers in Fife, no summer records are forth- 

 coming in the east of that " kingdom." 



It would be of use also if our ornithologists of England 

 would likewise map off the advances along the length and 

 across the breadth of that and the adjoining country of 

 Wales — both as regards nesting, distribution, and autumn 

 and winter migrations and irruptions. 



SPECIMEN SCHEDULE ONLY; WHICH I ADVOCATE. 

 Copied from Original Record which I retain. 



Notes and Remarks. 



If along with other Species , mcjition the names of the latter here : — " The speci- 

 men was found by me on Tuesday, 21st April 1908, lying on a walk dead. It 



