WESTBOTHLAND. Q3i 



radrii Hiaticulce (Ringed Plovers) and 

 Tr'mgcB (Sandpipers). One of the latter 

 my companions shot, but destroyed it so 

 completely that we obtained only a wing 

 and a leg entire, the remaining parts being 

 so torn that I could not make out the spe- 

 cies. The foot consisted of four toes, of 

 which the hinder one was very small, and 

 the two external ones joined by a web at 

 their base. 



A little further on a couple of young owls 

 were suspended on a tree. On my inquir- 

 ing what these birds had done to be so 

 served, the rower made me remark, on the 

 most lofty of the fir trees, concave cylin- 

 ders of wood, closed at top and bottom, 

 and having an aperture on one side. These 

 cyhnders are placed on the highest part of 

 the trees, in order to tempt Wild ducks to 

 lay their eggs in them, and they are after- 

 wards plundered by the country people. 

 In one of these nests a brood of young owls 

 had been hatched instead of young ducks. 



Presently afterwards the breast of a Cock 



