188 BIRDS OF LANCASHIEE. 



" May 25tli. — One seen flying across Tarleton Moss, 

 against a strong east wind, by Henry Cookson. 



" June 1st. — Two males and one female shot out of a 

 flock of seven on St. Michael's Moss, by C. Baines. 

 One male and one female in Mr. Francis Nicholson's 

 collection ; one male in Mr. W. B. Wardle's collection. 



" June 2nd. — A flock of about twenty seen, by a party 

 of Pigeon-shooters on the Manchester Eacecourse, flying 

 from the direction of Trafford Park ; the birds, after 

 passing over the course, wheeled and returned to the 

 park. 



" June 3rd.— Three males shot out of a flock of twenty 

 on Piawcliffe Moss, by John Taylor ; the remainder of the 

 birds flew N.W., and were probably the seventeen which 

 the Eev. H. A. Macpherson says were seen on June 11th 

 on the north end of Walney. One in Mr. F. Nicholson's 

 collection ; one in the Blackburn Museum ; one in my 

 own collection. 



" June 7th. — A solitary female shot on St. Michael's 

 Moss, by C. Baines. In my own collection. 



" June 30th. — One seen near Blackstone Edge Eeser- 

 voir, by James Sutcliffe, gamekeeper. 



" September 3rd. — One seen on Tarleton Moss, by 

 Henry Cookson. This bird was fljang west along the 

 same line as the one which he saw on May 25th ; but it 

 was travelling in the opposite direction. 



"From the above list it appears that in Lancashire 

 fifty-nine Sand-Grouse have been seen and eleven (seven 

 males and four females) killed. It is quite possible, 

 however, that the flock of twenty seen near Manchester 

 on June 2nd was the same as that observed on Eawclifie 

 Moss, forty miles N.W., on the following day, for most 

 of the birds which escaped the gun flew off in a north- 

 westerly direction. All those birds referred to, with the 



