The Zoologist— August, 1869. I799 



the left too.h slightly raore tlian the right one, and are no less than U inch in 

 length : their brcad.h is ..niforn^ly i of an inch. Their tips are rather worn, as 

 If by d.pgmg ; they are | of an inch apart from each other, nieasnring from tip 



1 TJ, ''T' "'"""' ^"''' ""'^*"^ P""'''''"= P«« °f ■'« Jeft ear is wanting- 

 A.deHugel; Torquay, A/ay 17, 1869. 



Ornithological Notes fr.,m Stirling.hire.~M,r.h 6. Jack snipes still present in the 

 n,arsh ; I shot four to-d.y. Bean geese busy on the grass meadows in ihe Carse-laud 

 low lyinfi ground near the coast and around Grangemouth 



h J^'t' r ^";^"^ '""■''' °° ''^'"'''' '""'""'y' ''"^^ ^''' y^«^ « P«ir of hen harriers 

 hred „■ Sml.ng,sb,re, ,n a part which I have long considered abandoned by these birds 

 the gamekeeper shot the female bird and put his foot on the nest of e-^s 

 Mar.h 18. Oiler trapped on ihe river. 



March 22. Large flocks of golden plover coming inland, preparatory to breaking 

 up for the breeding season, ^ "leaKing 



March 31. L.rge colony of blackheaded gulls used to breed (-,» T «m inf ^ . 

 an old « risidenter" in the parish of Kippen^on Flanders Ms, ^ouUe m e7w It 

 o Surhng, about thirty years ago. All left about that time, o;ing to the r" mi " 

 of the Moss by the farmers: about that time also the colony now h-lp^ u^ 



islands of Loch Lomond, first appeared .here. ^' "''"^ °" '^' 



hird'^r" H t '""^ """'^ ^"" ^"'" •'' "''*' "" ''"^ garden-seat close to where a black- 

 b.rd .eared rts young ,u safety last year, as already accorded in the Zoologist Th s 

 nest however, ,s not between the seat and the wall as the blackbird's was, bu tsimplv 



from .e trap .left fore foot nail perfect, .^^l::::-^^ !:r;;Z:;;" "^- 



ihemt "'" '' "'• ""'=' ' P"^"" '"^'^ -« t« ^-^ -en two on 



April 22. First sandpipers seen on the river: they are wonderfully regular in their 



ume of arrtva, here. Three pairs of kingfishers are breeding on the' rifer ba;L thi; 



During the month of May I „as absent from home • on returnln-r „n T . ,, 

 heard that a Canada goose had been shot out of a flock of'our at Can H "" l^ 

 day before; it is now at my birdstuffer's in Edinb.;; tI ^i^d .oT^^^^^^ 

 at our rookery this year,-yo.mg birds from the same n'est, and ki led by the la net . 

 hrgewhue patch on the throat, and the feet and bill's even tre^lr ,; '^ it - 

 John A. Harvie Brown; July \ 1869 F-'ny wniie— 



