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It may not be out of place to record here the following notice 

 taken from the proceedings of the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 

 for 1847, which I have not seen quoted elsewhere: " Cwrsorius 

 Isabellinusa, young male bird of this species was killed near 

 Cheswick on the 9th of November, 1846, by Mr David Kowtin 

 (in the preventive service), who shot it during a strong gale from 

 the south, being chased by gulls." 



THE GREAT PLOVER. 

 (EDICNEMUS CREPITANS. 



PNLY one specimen of this bird has occurred in Scotland, namely, 

 a male shot near St. Andrews on 27th January, 1858, as recorded 

 in Turnbull's " Birds of East Lothian." I had an opportunity of 

 seeing the specimen in the University Museum there. A very 

 good account of this curious plover and its head-quarters in 

 Great Britain will be found in Stevenson's "Birds of Norfolk" 

 an excellent work which should be in the library of every 

 ornithologist. 



THE COLLARED PRATINCOLE. 



GLAREOLA TORQUATA. 



IN Bullock's Museum Catalogue, dated 1812, there is the folio wing 

 brief record of the only specimen of this bird that has ever been 

 found in Scotland: "Austrian Pratencole (Glareola Ausiriaca). 

 We killed this extremely rare British bird in September, 1812, 

 in the island of Unst, within three miles of the northern extremity 

 of Great Britain." Seven years afterwards, at the dispersion of 

 this celebrated collection, the specimen was sold for eight guineas, 

 and placed in the British Museum. This may be considered a 

 large price for a bird, but it falls greatly short of what was 

 obtained for the first British killed specimen of the cream-coloured 

 courser, which became the property of Donovan at eighty-three 

 guineas:* it also is in the national collection. 



* See " Ornithology of Charnwood Forest," p. 69. 



