52 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
in his report on the subject, published in the ‘ Transactions of 
the Cumberland and Westmoreland Scientific Association.’ 
May 20th.—Eight were seen to alight on the moss about a 
mile north of St. Michael’s-on-Wyre. On the following morning 
Cuthbert Baines, a farm-labourer, shot four of them (two males 
and two females); the rest flew N.W. ‘These are the birds 
referred to by Mr. Hugh P. Hornby (‘Field,’ June 2nd), who 
writes me that he was misinformed as to the number of birds in 
the flock, and the date when his were shot, and that his notes 
are consequently incorrect on these points. 
May 25th.—One seen flying across Tarleton Moss, against a 
strong east wind, by Henry Cookson. 
June lst.—Two males and one female shot out of a flock of 
seven on St. Michael’s Moss, by C. Baines. One male and one 
female in Mr. Francis Nicholson’s collection; one male in Mr. 
W. B. Wardle’s collection. 
June 2nd.—A flock of about twenty seen, by a party of pigeon- 
shooters on the Manchester Racecourse, flying from the direction 
of Trafford Park; the birds, after passing over the course, 
wheeled and returned to the park. 
June 8rd.— Three males shot out of a flock of twenty on 
Rawceliff Moss, by John Taylor; the remainder of the birds flew 
N.W., and were probably the seventeen which the Rev. H. A. 
Macpherson says were seen on June 11th on the north end of 
Walney. One in Mr. F. Nicholson’s collection; one in the Black- 
burn Museum: one in my own collection. 
June 7th.—A solitary female shot on St. Michael’s Moss, by 
C. Baines. In my own collection. 
June 30th.—One seen near Blackstone Edge Reservoir, by 
James Stancliffe, gamekeeper. 
September 3rd.— One seen on Tarleton Moss, by Henry 
Cookson. This bird was flying west along the same line as the 
one which he saw on May 25th; but it was travelling in the 
opposite direction. 
From the above list it appears that in Lancashire fifty-nine 
Sand Grouse have been seen and eleven (seven males and four 
females) killed. Itis quite possible, however, that the flock of 
twenty seen near Manchester on June 2nd was the same as that 
observed on Rawcliffe Moss, forty miles N.W., on the following 
day, for most of the birds which escaped the gun flew off ina 
