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trees used to shoot numbers of Dotterels on Shannobank 

 and Godscroft upwards of thirty years ago ; and Mr. John 

 Wilson, late of Edington Mains, tells me that a Mr. 

 Anderson, who lived at Cockburn, obtained them on Black- 

 erston and Quixwood about the same time. According to 

 Mr. Bertram, Eetreat, they were then frequently killed on 

 Howpark by Mr. William Logan, Ayton ; and Mr. John 

 Blackadder, East Blanerne, states that about fifty years ago 

 numbers were shot on the farms of Brockholes and Horsely 

 by Mr. Joseph Hume, Eetreat, and his friends. Mr. James 

 Purves, gamekeeper at Eoulden, says that about 1857 he 

 sometimes bagged from ten to fifteen brace of Dotterels in 

 a day on Lamberton farm towards the middle of May, when 

 great flocks frequented the newly-sown fields on the skirts 

 of the moor near the Pit Houses. They allowed him at 

 first to go quite near to them when they were sitting in 

 a flock, but after they had been shot at several times they 

 turned very wild and would not let him approach within 

 range, and he had to stalk them from behind dykes and the 

 like to get a successful shot at them. He sometimes got as 

 many as thirty brace during their stay. He had heard an 

 old dyker say that sixty or seventy years ago Dotterels 

 used to visit the high-lying lands on Foulden Estate adjoin- 

 ing Lamberton Moor, and a man named Park, who lived in 

 Horncliffe, was then employed to shoot them for the table 

 of the proprietor, Mr. Wilkie of Foulden, to whom they 

 were sometimes forwarded when he was living in London. 



Mr. Hardy, Oldcambus, states that when this species is 

 flying its wings look like those of the Plover, and when a 

 flock rises the birds wheel round and round aloft in the 

 clear air, and then give a dart, circle round, and alight 

 in nearly the same place whence they rose. 



In order to keep some record of the past and present 

 haunts of the Dotterel in Berwickshire, the following notes 



