32 SEA-FOWL SHOOTING, ETC. 



'S.V letter. Sanderson, the bird-stuffer, of 66 

 George Street, knows I went to the May for the 

 express purpose of shooting a black guillemot. 

 He stuffed the two for me when I returned. 

 Kelly, of North Berwick (the fisherman), his 

 father-in-law, and a lad in his boat, saw my son 

 and me shoot them exactly as described, and I 

 refer ' S.' to both these parties. Lastly, the pair 

 is stuffed and placed in my case of rock birds at 

 my house, No. 1 Eoyal Terrace, where I invite 

 'S.' to go and inspect them. One is jet black, 

 the other speckled. Both were shot the same day 

 of April 1864. I have not my journal by me of 

 last year, or I could tell the day. It is in Edin- 

 burgh, at my house there." 



