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2. Oldhamstocks Mains (near Cockburnspatli), East 

 Lothian ^ — Two males and three females shot on 17th May 

 out of a flock of twenty-three by Mr C. Clarke, the tenant 

 of the farm, and sent for preservation to Mr G. Pow, Dunbar, 

 who advised me of the occurrence the following day, and in 

 whose hands I afterwards saw them. They were feedin<^' in 

 a field of late sown barley newly seeded with grass and 

 clover. Dr Stuart, in his letter to the Scotsman of 4th June, 

 stated that four birds were killed near Oldhamstocks on tlie 

 same day (25tli May) as the Foulden bird was obtained. Mr 

 Clarke, however, is not aware of any, except those he got on 

 17th May, having been killed near Oldhamstocks, and Dr 

 Stuart admits he must have been misinformed in regard to 

 the facts, as the birds he referred to were those shot by Mr 

 Clarke. Mr Clarke also informs me that for a week or two 

 after he shot the five, he on several occasions saw small parties 

 fiying over his farm ; that his brother saw seventeen cross 

 Eedheugh Hill in a southerly direction on 23d May ; and 

 that a day or so afterwards, a flock of sixteen or seventeen, 

 presumably the same birds, were seen at East Eeston. 



3. Stow, Midlothian. — A male picked up under the 

 telegraph wires on 18th May, and taken to Mr Small, Edin- 

 burgh, for preservation. It had been dead only a very short 

 time when found. 



4. Wester Broomhouse, near Dunbar. — Four shot bv Mr 

 John M. Nelson on 16th May, between 4 and 5 p.m., out of a 

 flock of about a dozen, while feeding in a barley field sown 

 with grass and clover seeds. Three of these, a male and two 

 females, were sent to Mr Hope for preservation, and I had 

 an opportunity of examining them early in the forenoon of 

 the 17th. The fourth bird fell in an adjoining field, and was 

 not found for some days. It was not preserved. 



5. Belhaven Sands and adjoining Links of Westbarns, 

 near Dunbar. — Two males and one female shot on 16th 

 May, between 5 and 6 p.m., by Mr T. P. Elliot, 25 High Street, 

 Dunbar, out of a flock of about a score, as they rose from the 

 foot of the sandbank close to the rifle-range and flew over to 

 the Links. Early on the morning of the 17th May Mr 



^ Not " Berwickshire," as stated in the Field and elsewhere. 



