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TOPOGRAPHICAL INDEX. 



156 ; Water Rail, 201 ; high 

 grounds visited by Dotterel in 

 former times, 211 ; Woodcock in 

 lambing shed, 234 ; tame Herring 

 Gull, 284. 



Ayton Castle, Osprey found, 28 ; 

 Pheasant shooting, 173 ; Partridge 

 shooting, 182. 



Backlea Woods, Black Grouse, 161. 



Bamborough, 100. 



Bankend, 156. 



Barnside, Wild Geese, 72 ; Black 

 Grouse. 158; Red Grouse shoot- 

 ing in 1813, 164. 



Bass, Gannet, 35, 36, 37 ; seen from 

 Fast Castle, 281 ; Kittiwake Gull, 

 290 ; Razor-bill, 295 ; Puffin, 306. 



Bastenrig, Dotterel, 210. 



Bathgate Bog, James iv. hawking 

 the Common Bittern, 62. 



Bedside!, Wild Geese, 80; Black 

 Grouse, 158, 160; Red Grouse 

 shooting in 1812-14, 164. 



Belhaven, 317. 



Belvidere, Common Heron, 45. 



Bemersyde, 62; Little Grebe, 319. 



Bemersyde Loch, a haunt of the 

 Mallard, 102 ; a nesting station 

 of Black-headed Gull, 268 ; Mr. 

 John Thomson's account of loch, 

 269, 270, 271. 



Berrington, rhyme about Wild 

 Geese, 87. 



Berrybank, 54 ; Partridge shooting, 

 183. 



Berrywell, Water Rail, 201. 



Berwick, Grace Griffith's execution 

 and White Pigeon, 149 ; popular 

 saying regarding pigeons associat- 

 ing with Rooks, 150 ; Dr. Colville 

 Brown's account of moulting of 

 Black-headed Gull, 271. 



Benvick Bounds, Common Quail, 191. 



Berwick Bridge, 313. 



Berwick-on- Tweed, Falcons at High- 

 land and Agricultural Society's 

 Show in 1841, 3; Wild Swans, 

 97 ; Eared Grebe, 317. 



Berwickshire, heather burning, 169 ; 

 migration, 327, 328 ; Ornithologi- 

 cal observations, 329. 



Big Blake Law, Dotterel, 216. 



Big Byrips, nest of Herring Gull, 

 281.' 



Big Wood, Salton, Cushats, 134. 



BUlie, Partridge shooting, 182, 183. 



Bfflie Burn, drainage of Billie Mire, 

 57, 59 ; Water Rail, 201. 



Billie Castle, ruins of, 55. 

 Billie Mains, 54, 55 ; Brent Goose 

 shot, 91 ; Shoveller killed, 107 ; 

 273. 



Billie Mill, 56. 



Billie Mire, formerly a haunt of the 

 Common Bittern, 53 ; meeting 

 place of English and Scottish 

 Commissioners, 54 ; Fosterland 

 Burn, 55 ; Auchencrow Burn, 55 ; 

 Billie Mire Burn, 55 ; Draeden 

 Burn, 55 ; MS. notes on the plants 

 formerly found here by the late 

 Dr. Henderson, Chirnside, 57 ; 

 birds, 58 ; state in end of last 

 century, 58 ; plan in 1759, 58 ; 

 Mr. JolmBlackadder's notes about 

 drainage of the Mire, 59 ; pro- 

 posed canal between Duns and 

 Eyemouth, 59 ; Mire bridge, 59 ; 

 notes by Mr. William White, 

 Lennel Hill, 60 ; last Bittern 

 shot, 60 ; bog oak and hazel nuts 

 discovered, 60 ; old people in 

 Chirnside having heard the Bull 

 o' the Bog, 61 ; Wild Duck, 101 ; 

 Flapper shooting, 104 ; Spotted 

 Crake, 199 ; a breeding station 

 of Black-headed Gull in former 

 times, 273. 



Billie Mire Burn, 55, 56. 



Birch Hill, Norham, 310. 



Birgham, Pochard on the Tweed, 

 116 ; Black-headed Gull, 271. 



Blackadder, Kestrel, 26 ; Common 

 Heron, 45 ; frequented by the 

 Mallard, 103; Moor Hen, 202; 

 Common Sandpiper, 250. 



Blackadder Estate, Pistol Plantation, 

 favourite roosting place of Wood 

 Pigeons, 136. 



Blackadder House, Stock Dove's 

 nest, 143. 



Blackburn, 54 ; " Mire Drum " shot, 

 60 ; 95 ; Dotterel, 217. 



Blackburn Mitt, Dotterel, 216. 



Blackburn Rigg Peat Moss, Land- 

 rail in winter, 196. 



Blackcastle Rings, Kestrel, 26. 



Blackerston, Dotterel, 213, 214, 215, 

 220. 



Black Hill, Dotterel, 215. 



Black Hill, Longformacus, 106. 



Black Mask Rock, near Fast Castle, 

 nests of Herring Gull, 281. 



Black's Mill Burn, shooting Wild 

 Ducks in 1812-14, 104. 



Blackpotts, Coldingham, White 

 Stork, 64. 



