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I believe this bird, which is a well-known, though some- 

 what rare summer migrant in England, will yet be found 

 breeding in Kincardineshire. Glen Dye is one of the most 

 likely places where it will be met with. The specimen 

 which I now exhibit was killed as I have said near Dundee 

 in October 1875, and I have no doubt that when shot, it was 

 on its way south from that quarter. 



VI. Note on the Occurrence of the Whimhrel (Numenius 

 phseopus) in Greenland. By Egbert Gray, F.E.S.E. 



For some years past I have been much interested with the 

 specimens of birds brought home by the masters of the 

 Dundee whaling ships, who have been induced to collect 

 and preserve all that comes in their way, and I was lately 

 pleased to find that a pair of whimbrels had been captured 

 on board the " Polynia " when passing Cape Farewell on the 

 20th of May last year. The master of the ship informed me 

 that the two birds had followed the vessel for some days, and 

 that they had at length fallen upon deck quite exhausted. 

 The birds were in full breeding plumage, and it is highly 

 probable that they would have landed to the north of the 

 locality off which they were captured. Professor Eeinhardt 

 of Copenhagen, in a paper contributed by him to the Ihis for 

 1861, mentions that five or six had been seen by himself, all 

 sent from Greenland, and that six others had been sent to 

 his father from that quarter in the years 1831 and 1835. 

 This is really all the information we possess regarding the 

 occurrence of this bird in that part of the world, for al- 

 though an exhaustive list was published three years ago for 

 the use of the officers of the recent Arctic Expedition, by 

 Professor Newton of Cambridge, he had nothing to add from 

 the observations of other writers during the last sixteen 

 years. 



The specimen which I now exhibit is the male — the female 

 beincf now, as I am informed, in the collection of Mr Harvie- 

 Prown. 



