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100 ; 25th " [the date of the letter], " many flights from 5 to 

 20, very cold northerly wind, blowing rather fresh." Later 

 reports state that some w^ere still to be seen up to July 

 17th, and that "most flocks flew to the West." On 12th 

 May a flock of about 30, 5 of which were killed, appeared at 

 Listorland, in the south of Norway, not far from the Naze, 

 as recorded by Professor Collett in the Ihis for 1888, p. 375. 

 So comparatively rapid was their progress across Europe, 

 that before the news of their appearance on the Continent 

 had reached the British public through the columns of 

 Nature for May 17th, the birds themselves had actually 

 arrived on our shores. 



I now submit the series of Scottish records which I have 

 drawn up from the materials in my possession. The 

 arrangement is, for obvious reasons, according to locality, 

 and proceeds up the East coast and down the West. 



1. Foulden West Mains, Berwickshire. — A female captured 

 on 25th May out of a flock of twelve, and sent to the 

 Zoological Gardens, London, by Mr H. H. Craw,^ the tenant of 

 the farm — Dr Stuart, Chirnside, Scotsman, 4th June ; also East 

 Aherdeenshire Ohserver, 8th June, where date of capture is 

 given ; ^ and Field, 9th June, where, under additions to the 

 Zoological Society's Menagerie, the sex is stated.^ Dr Stuart 

 informs me that the bird was observed sitting in a field, 

 after the others took flight, by a boy, who succeeded in 

 getting his cap over it, and so secured it. Some days prior 

 to 25th May they were seen by the keeper at Edington hill ; 

 about the same time Dr Stuart's gardener saw four pass over 

 Chirnside; and on 3d June the doctor himself, when driving 

 home from Ayton, observed a fine male sitting in a field 

 within 20 yards of the road. (I may here mention that a 

 male, now in the museum at Berwick-on-Tweed, was shot 

 two or three miles south of that town on 5th June and sent 

 to Mr Hope, Edinburgh, for preservation.) 



1 Mr Craw's name was erroneously printed " Cran " in the Scotsman, and 

 " Crane " in the Field and Proc. Zool. Soc. 



•^ The date given in P. Z. S., 1888, ]). 291, is the 28th, hut this cannot he 

 correct, as Dr Stuart saw tlie hird in Mr Craw's hands on the 26th. 



3 1 have since compared the Field reports witli the list of additions given 

 in the appendix to P. Z. S., 1888, 



