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39. Goberiiuisgach, Reay Forest, Sutherland. — A male 

 sliot on 1 (Stli May and sent to Mr Hope for preservation. 



40. Orkney Islands.— On 17th May, Mr John (Ulmour, 

 light-house keeper, Pentland Skerries, shot four — all females 

 — out of a flock of twelve ; tliree of theiu were sent to 

 Mr Small for preservation, and the remaining one to Mr L. 

 Dunbar, Thurso — Orkney Herald, 23d May, and Mr W. Keid, 

 Scotsman, 4tli June. The following also passed through 

 Mr Small's hands, namely : A male, received from Stronsay, 

 2d June ; a male from Kirkwall, 4tli June ; a female from 

 Kirkwall, 20tli June — had been found dead, and could not be 

 stuffed ; a male from Kirkwall, 21st June ; another from 

 Kirkwall, 1st November; and on 18th December the skins 

 of a pair said to have been shot in Orkney in September. 

 Large numbers, it seems, visited Orkney ; and I was told, no 

 longer a2;o than 28th ulto., that some were still there. 



41. Slietland Islands. — A goodly number appear to have 

 visited these islands also. Mr Harvie-Brown received a 

 female from Unst, which was killed on 16th May; and 

 the following have come under my own notice, namely : 

 male and female received from Unst on 21st May by 

 Mr Hope, who informed me the}^ were killed on the 18tli — 

 the male is now in the Edinburgh Museum ; male and 

 female, from Unst, received by Mr Hope on 29th May — 

 killed five or six days previously; male and female, from 

 Unst, received by Mr Hope on 11th June — said to have 

 been killed on the 4th — female now in Edinburgh Museum ; 

 and, finally, a female from Unst received by Mr Small on 

 14th June. A paragraph in the Dundee Advertiser of 14th 

 June, says — " These birds . . . have been seen and 

 several examples obtained in Shetland during the past three 

 weeks. One was secured in the island of Fetlar on the 7th 

 inst. ... A group of eight birds was seen in the 

 vicinity of Lerwick a few days ago." 



42. Parish of Gairloch, Ross-shire. — About 1st June fifteen 

 were noticed on a remote farm near the sea-shore. During 

 the following week the flock broke up. Three were seen on 

 9th June; others, about the same date, at a place three 

 miles off, also near the shore — Mr J. H. Dixon, Field, 



