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TO THE KIGHT HONOURABLE 



THE EARL OF HADDINGTON. 



MY LORD, 



During the preparation of this Volume on the 



Birds of Western Scotland, I have had frequent occasion to 

 refer to information communicated to me by your Lordship on 

 the more interesting species frequenting the opposite shores of 

 East Lothian and Berwickshire a district of country which has 

 revealed many features of significant import to the British 

 ornithologist, and enabled me to form a more accurate estimate 

 of the movements of certain birds than I had previously acquired. 

 In offering, therefore, to my fellow-naturalists the present Work, 

 containing an account of the bird life of a large and comparatively 

 uninvestigated tract' of North Britain, I feel highly gratified in 

 being permitted to dedicate it to your Lordship, as an acknow- 

 ledgment for the service which has been so courteously rendered. 



I have the honour to be, 



MY LORD, 

 Your Lordship's obedt. Servant, 



ROBERT GRAY. 



GLASGOW, October, 1871. 



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