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THE DOTTEREL. 



PARISH. 



Source of infor- 

 mation, and date 

 when obtained. 



NOTES. 



Longfor- 

 macus 

 continued. 



Mr. Wm. Duns, 

 Duns, 20th 

 May J886. 



John, Blackadder, 

 Esq., East 

 Blanerne, 30th 

 June 1886, 



Mr. W. Smith, 

 gamekeeper, 

 Duns Castle, 

 llth Oct. 1886. 



days, and it was a regular practice every 

 year for some of the gunners about Duns 

 to go to shoot them, much the same as 

 people go to the " Crow shooting " at the 

 present time. 



Very common at Blackerston about fifty 

 years ago. 



A few Dotterels are seen on Kettleshiel in 

 spring. 



Mording- 

 ton. 



Jas. Mein, Esq., 

 Lamberton, 

 28th Oct. 1886. 



Mr. Jas. Purves, 

 gamekeeper, 

 Foulden, llth 

 Oct. 1886. 



Mr. Jas. Purves, 

 gamekeeper, 

 Mordington, 

 llth Oct. 1886. 



Mr. John Nairn, 

 dyker, Mor- 

 dington, 7th 

 Aug. 1884. 



The Dotterel is here nearly every spring. 

 Five were seen on the 18th of May 1881. 



On the 26th of May 1858 ten brace of 

 Dotterels were shot at Mordington. 



Dotterels visit the moor on Lamberton farm 

 in April and May. The largest number 

 which I have seen in a flock is seven. 1 

 find by the Game Book that seven were 

 shot in a field on Lamberton, known by 

 the name of Heathery Howes, on the 12th 

 of May 1868; and again on the 9th of 

 May 1872 seven were killed in the same 

 field. On the 12th of April 1884 two 

 were obtained at Lamberton. 



Saw Dotterels in the Camp Field on Lam- 

 berton farm in April last. They fre- 

 quented the rushy part of the field. 



West- 

 ruther. 



Messrs Clark, 

 Kirklandhill, 

 East-Lothian, 

 20th Oct. 1884. 



Mr. John Young, 



tamekeeper, 

 pottiswoode, 

 llth Sept. 1886. 



Occasionally shot a dozen Dotterels in a 

 season on the farm of Harelaw, near 

 Westruther, about twenty -five years ago. 

 The Spottiswoode gamekeeper used to 

 shoot them on the same farm. 



No Dotterels visit any farm on the estate 

 of Spottiswoode now ; but I believe about 

 thirty years ago they were plentiful on 

 Westruther Mains farm, near Houndslow. 



