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—Mr J. V^o^B, Zoologist, 1888, p. 2G3 ; and "J. I).," Field, 9th 

 June. On 28tli May Mr Small received a male from Elie 

 for preservation. The ('rail l)ird is, I jiresume, the same as 

 the female presented to the Zoological Society on 3d Novemher 

 by Mr J. Duncan — Field, lOtli November. It died on 4th 

 December, and was sent to the Edinburgli Museum, but Ijeing 

 unfit to stuff, has been made into a skeleton. 



21. Tentsmuir, North-east of Fife. — Large parties are 

 reported to have visited this district by the beginning of 

 June; and, receiving the protection of the proprietors, soon 

 settled down : numbers were still there in November. 

 About August 18th five birds were captured alive in a field 

 of rye on Mr Speedie's property (Kinshaldy). Two of 

 these, both females, were sent to tlie Zoological Gardens, 

 London — Col. Drummond-Hay, Scottish Naturalist for Octo- 

 ber ; Field, 1st September. 



22. Perthshire. — In the Scottish Naturalist for October 

 Col. Drummond-Hay records three obtained in the county* 

 namely, a female killed against the telegraph wires and 

 picked up on the railway near Abercairney, Crieff, about the 

 end of May ; one shot shortly after 29th May, near Castle 

 Menzies, Aberfeldy ; and a male shot near the head of Loch 

 Eannoch, out of a party of three, and presented by Sir 

 Eobert Menzies to the Perthshire Society's Museum. A 

 female received by Mr Small from Perthshire on 28th May, 

 and a male also received by him from the same county, on 

 31st May, were, I understand, the two last-mentioned birds. 



23. Arbroath and Montrose, Forfarshire. — One found dead 

 near Arbroath, 5th June ; supposed to have flown against 

 telegraph wire — Mr E. N. Simpson, Scottish Naturalist, 

 October, p. 340. Considerable numbers — thirty to forty — 

 frequented the Links of Montrose from June to October, and 

 six to eio-ht were killed. One was caucrht alive in a rabbit- 



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hole. The Montrose Museum received one specimen, a male, 

 shot in June — Mr E. Barclay, in litt., 5th October. 



24. Muchalls, Kincardineshire. — One shot by a farmer out 

 of a flock of fourteen during the last week of May — Mr G. 

 A. Leslie, Field, 9th June. Mr Leslie at same time mentions 

 that on 1st June he had seen a live bird on board the Danish 



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