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May 28th. A flock of fifteen seen near Stonehaven : two were 

 shot, and sent for preservation to the curator of the Aberdeen 

 Museum. 



May 31st. One, an adult male, killed in Perthshire, and for- 

 warded to a game dealer in Derby. This specimen is now in the 

 Derby Museum. 



One specimen, which I have seen, was killed near Elgin, and is 

 now in a private collection there. 



June 6th. One specimen killed near Dornoch in Sutherlandshire, 

 and preserved by Mr M'Leay, bird-stuffer, Inverness. 



June 8th. A flock of ten or twelve seen on the farm of Wester- 

 seat, near Wick : one of these birds was shot while the flock fed 

 among the young braird of oats, and was afterwards placed in the 

 collection of the late Mr E. S. Sinclair of Wick. 



June 10th. Mr Alex. Henderson informs me that a specimen 

 was pursued by a peregrine falcon on the Dunbar Links, East 

 Lothian, and captured by a fisherman from his boat in the creek 

 at the vaults. 



Seven or eight were shot in Forfarshire : one of these a female, 

 killed on Montrose Links is now in the Montrose Museum, a 

 second in the possession of Dr Howden, Sunnyside Asylum, and 

 a third in the hands of Dr Johnstone, Montrose. For these 

 particulars I am indebted to Mr Don, of Brechin, but I have not 

 been able to learn the fate of the other specimens. 



July 1 Oth. A second Sutherlandshire specimen shot at Ulbster, 

 in Caithness, by Captain Bentley Innes. 



I am indebted to the Earl of Haddington for the following notes 

 on the species from Haddingtonshire : "A flock of about twenty 

 was seen in June on the shore near Seacliffe, and one was shot. 

 Others may have been killed in East Lothian, but this is the only 

 one that I heard of. In July, 1865, I was told by Mr Small that 

 a specimen had been caught alive near Paisley. He procured this 

 bird for me immediately, and as they are so rarely met with, a few 

 remarks on him may interest you. I made for him a small wire 

 netting enclosure in the garden, with a miniature shed in one 

 corner, but of this he would never avail himself in the heaviest 

 rain. Part of the enclosure was thickly covered each day with dry 

 sand, and his great delight was to bask and roll in this on a sunny 

 day. He would sometimes lie on his side with one leg extended 

 in full enjoyment of the heat a position in which you may have 



