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schooner " Thor," then lying in Aberdeen Harbour, which 

 had alighted on the vessel on 29th May when halfway across 

 the North Sea. 



25. Cruden, Aberdeenshire. — One killed out of a large 

 flock by a boy, with a stone. Mr J. E. Harting — Field, 2d 

 June, and Zoologist for same month — states that this incident 

 took place on 17th May ; and the Editor of the Scottish 

 Naturalist for July, probably following Mr Harting, gives 

 the same day ; hut a notice in the East Aberdeenshire 

 Observer of 8th June says it occurred on 15th May, and 

 adds that the specimen was being stuffed by Mr MacBoyle, 

 Peterhead. 



26. Peterhead and St Fergus. — Two flocks seen in close 

 proximity to Peterhead, and two birds killed — East Aberdeen- 

 shire Observer, 8th June. A paragraph in Land and Water 

 of 4th August stated that a large number of Sand- grouse 

 had established themselves on the Bents at St Fergus, near 

 Peterhead, and alleged that they had nested there. This 

 drew from Mr A. Wynne Corrie, the lessee of the shootings, 

 a letter, which appeared in the issue of 29th September, to 

 the effect that he had killed four on one occasion and three 

 on another upon these Bents. The three last mentioned — all 

 females — were shot on 6th September and forwarded to 

 Mr Harvie-Brown. I saw them in Mr Small's shop before 

 they w^ere skinned. I gather that the four birds referred to 

 in Land and Water of 1st September as shot out of a pack 

 of between seventy and eighty "in the neighbourhood of 

 Aberdeen," were those first obtained by Mr Corrie. The 

 same notice speaks of another pack of about thirty having 

 been seen the same day. 



27. Fyvie and Monquhitter. — Mr G. Sim, Fyvie, writing 

 on 4th June to the Scottish Naturalist for July, says — " These 

 strange visitors were seen lately in the parish of Fyvie, and 

 were at first supposed to be some variety of plover. They 

 were dispersed in groups, from single individuals up to large 

 flocks ; their identity was proved on the 26th May, when 

 two males and four females were shot out of a flock of about 

 fifty on the Waggle Hill, Monquhitter." 



28. Links near Pitgaveny, by Elgin. — From Captain 



