118 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 



7th July, and Inverness Courier^ as quoted in Scotsman of 

 4th July. 



A communication, signed "M. P.," in the Field of 21st 

 July, reporting that three birds had been seen (apparently 

 about the middle of the month) on a Eoss-shire shooting, 

 may here be mentioned. 



43. Skye. — Writing to me on 15th June, the Eev. H. 

 A. Macpherson mentioned that lie had just heard of their 

 appearance in Skye, and he has since kindly supplied me 

 with the following details, namely : — A flight of fourteen 

 visited Duntulm in the north of the island on 28th May, 

 when one was winged. They were seen at Waternish, flying 

 for the Minch. Some interesting facts resrardinoj the above 



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captive, referred to as " he," are given in Mr Macpherson's 

 paper in the Trans. Cumberland and Westmoreland Associa- 

 tion, 1888, p. 63. 



44. Lewis, Outer Hebrides. — Flock of thirteen observed 

 on the Sandhills at the mouth of the river Coll, about six 

 miles from Stornoway, on 7th June. They were put up 

 twice ; the second time they disappeared inland in a north- 

 westerly direction — Captain T. H. Plumbe, Field, 16th June. 

 In the same newspaper of 22d September, Mr E. F. Cook 

 stated that several birds had visited the island of Lewis, 

 and that some which were shot there had been forwarded 

 for preservation to Mr MacLeay of Inverness in whose 

 possession he had recently seen them. 



45. Benbecula and South Uist. — In the Ihis for 1888, 

 p. 492, Sir J. W. P. Campbell-Orde publishes a letter from 

 Dr John MacEury (erroneously printed Mackney), dated 

 25th May, to the effect that on or about 22d May, and two 

 or three succeeding days, he had observed a solitary bird on 

 a moor in Benbecula, and that on 25th May he had observed 

 on the " Machair " there, a covey of ten. The same flock 

 is referred to by an anonymous correspondent, "J. J. F.," 

 in the Scotsman of 14th June, who, writing on 8th June, 

 speaks of them having been seen on the Machair since the 

 last week of May. 



Mr A. Hogg tells me that when in Oban last summer, 

 he saw, in the hands of Mr Scutts, taxidermist there, a pair 



