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[§ 4541. Three—Gartan Lake, Donegal, 5 June, 1862. 
“R. H.” From Mr. Robert Harvey. | 
[§ 4542. One.—Scotton, Lincolnshire, 8 June, 1883. “ E.N.” 
From a nest of three found as above by my brother Edward during an 
excursion, arranged for us by the late Mr. Cordeaux, who met us at Kirton- 
in-Lindsey and gave us his company during the day, As we drove from the 
railway station he pointed out to us the field in which the Houbara macqueent 
now in the York Museum was killed (Zool. 1869, pp. 2065, 2146). We took the 
road to Scotton, where we expected to have met the gamekeeper, but he was 
not there, so we went on to the moor, turning to the northward along a green 
trackway, the ground on each side being open and boggy, with Pinyuicula, 
Drosera, and other such plants growing more or less abundantly, but the moor 
had been much pared and burnt in places. A considerable number of Black- 
headed Gulls were flying about and not a few Lapwings. When we came to 
the green road, my brother and Mr. Cordeaux got out and walked, while I 
continued in the carriage. There was generally a ditch on each side of the 
road, and a few pools of water were visible, and on which were more Gulls— 
“‘ Brownheads,” as Mr. Cordeaux said they were here called,—and on the margin 
of one of these pocls, some two or three hundred yards to the north-east of the 
trackway, my brother found the nest from which this egg came. By-and-by 
we met the gamekeeper, who among other things told us that a Jack Snipe’s 
nest had been found on the moor not long before, and promised to send one of 
the eggs from it to Mr. Cordeaux, who subsequently informed me that it 
seemed to be a Dunling’s. At last we reached the wood which now covers Twig 
Moor, the once celebrated Lincolnshire Gullery, on the water of which we saw 
any number of Gulls, old and young, the latter chiefly on muddy islands or 
promontories, besides a pair of Sheld-drakes, with their brood of seven young — 
only a few days old. The gamekeeper told my brother that hundreds of the 
Gulls had died this year from some unascertained cause. My brother believed 
this to be true, as he saw several dead on the ground in various stages of 
decomposition. | 
[§ 4543. Fowr—Loch Spynie, Moray, May, 1889. From 
Capt. Dunbar Brander, of Pitgaveney. 
Out of two or three dozens hindly sent to me, unblown and the greater 
number broken in transit. These I picked out as being striking varieties, and 
one of them had a beautiful green ground. The Gullery is, I believe, near the 
Culbin Sands, on which in 1888 the “rabbit man” got two eggs which he 
thought were those of Syrrhaptes, but to my eye they seemed to be Moorhens’, 
It was, however, from this lccality that, thanks to Major Chadwick, a young 
Syrrhaptes, the first described and figured (Ibis, 1890, p. 207, pl. vii.), was 
taken. | 
