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Elliot shot another female out of a flock of seven or eight'; 

 and between 4 and 6 p.m. of the same day I had the pleasure 

 of seeing first a flock of fourteen and then a party of four. 

 At same time I found a beautiful male lying dead on the 

 Links, where another male was picked up tlie following day, 

 and taken for preservation to Mr W. Johnson, Belhaven, in 

 whose hands I afterwards saw it. Both had died of i^unshot 

 wounds. The above, with the exception of the last mentioned, 

 are in my collection. For two or three weeks parties, mostly 

 small, were from time to time seen on these Links and 

 neio^hbourino- fields from Dunbar to East Linton. ISTear the 

 latter place a considerable flock was seen at Phantasie, and 

 likewise on Traprain Farm. 



6. Castle Moffat, near Garvald, East Lothian. — A male 

 shot out of a covey of 5 on the Lammermoors, above this 

 place, on 20th May, by the Nunraw keeper. This specimen, 

 which is now in the possession of Mr W. W. Gray of Nun- 

 raw, is, I understand, the one referred to in the Haddington- 

 shire Advertiser of 15tli June. A party of four were seen 

 near Whittinghame on 26th May — Miss Balfour, in litt., 

 30th September. 



7. Howden Farm, five miles south of Haddington. — Two 

 — probably a pair — shot on 7th June by Mr J. Catleugh, 

 keeper, Bankrugg. One fell into a plantation, and was not 

 found. — Mr G. Pow, in litt., 25th June ; also Haddingtonshire 

 Courier, 8th June. The bird obtained was stuffed in 

 Haddington. Mr Catleugh tells me it is a female, and is 

 in the possession of his daughter, Mrs Comb, Xewton Farm, 

 near Dalkeith.^ 



8. Scoughall, on coast, midway between Dunbar and North 

 Berwick. — Two males and one female shot by Mr Thomas 

 Dale, the tenant of the farm, out of a Hock of from fifteen to 

 twenty, on 25th May, and sent to Mr Hope for preservation. 

 Mr Dale tells me that two of these specimens are still in his 

 ])ossession, and tliat the third is in the collection of Mr A. 

 Laidlay, Seacliffe, where another, shot by Mr Dale in the 

 same locality in 1863, may still be seen. 



9. North Berwick West Links, and adjoining common. — 



^ I have since seen it. 



