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In the account of the Capercaillie prior to extinction, I 

 have already noticed tlie birds shot by Captain Stanton near 

 Bo'ness in 1811. 



In 1872 a male was seen by Captain Maynard in Kettle- 

 stone plantations (44 miles from O , and 5 miles from TuUi- 

 allan, across sea). 



MID-LOTHIAN. 



1876. One bird was distinctly identified in Mansion House 

 Eoad, at the Grange, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, in May 



1876. The bird — a female — flew past the gentleman who iden- 

 tified it within 20 yards. It came from tlie south, and flew 

 away due north, heading across the Meadows, directly for the 

 space between St. Giles and the Tron Church towers. Pos- 

 sibly this might be the bird shot at Dalmeny in November 



1877, but I doubt if it would have remained there so long 

 without being detected. My idea is that, wherever it came 

 from, it headed for the church spires, mistaking them at the 

 distance for tops of pine trees on the horizon. Edinburgh is 

 54 miles from Taymouth O , and 18 miles in a direct line from 

 Tulliallan O . It is rather a curious instance of the extreme 

 wandering propensities of the species. It is reported as hav- 

 ing come from the south. I have no statistics from any loca- 

 lities to the south of Edinburgh to make me suppose that its 

 origin was there. It must have been, I fancy, a truly wandered 

 bird, like the earlier records in Fife and Stirlingshire. 



DUMBARTON. 



Birds have once or twice been shot in the Loch Lomond 

 district, probably strayed birds from the direction of Cardross. 

 They have been obtained at Eoss Priory by Sir George Leith- 

 Buchanan, Bart, (see under Stirlingshire), and on the islands 

 of Loch Lomond (' Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc.,' Glasgow, vol. iii. p. 

 68) ; also in Stirlingshire. 



