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field belonging to Mr. Stuart, Collielaw, in September, 

 1871. 



Charadrius morinellus. — The mid hill of Lauder com- 

 monly used to be their great resort. Both Mr. Tilly and 

 Mr. Scott tell me that Dotterels have nested on the out- 

 ground of Broaclshawrig, year after year, to their knowledge 

 for ten years. I saw a young bird that Mr. Scott had 

 shot. 



Charadrius hiaticula. — Mr. Walter Simson, who has been 

 on the banks of the Leader for fifty years, has only seen one 

 Ringed Plover*. 



Gkus cinerea. — A Crane was shot by the late Charles 

 Simson, Esq., of Threepwood, on the Threepwood estate. 



Botaurus stellaris. — I have ascertained from Mr. Simson 

 that Huntley wood Moss was once (1810) a favourite haunt of 

 the Bittern, or " Bull-in-the-Bog," and for thirty years later 

 occasional birds had been gotten; but it is now quite 

 deserted. 



Scolopax gallinula.— Foot drains on the uplands are 

 preferred by Jacksnipes, but they are never anywhere nu- 

 merous. 



Rallus aquaticus. — Specimens have been repeatedly got 

 in Leader. They also frequent Legerwood Loch. 



Fultgula ferina.— There are several specimens of the 

 Pochard in the local collections here ; and on inquiry I find 

 they have all been got in the neighbourhood of the 

 Leader. 



Mergus merganser, ml Castor. — St. Leonard's Cauld has 

 always been the well-known haunt of this beautiful bird ; 

 no fewer than seven or eight pairs visiting it in a season; 

 but like many other interesting fowls, they are now getting 

 few and far between. 



Podiceps minor. — Mr. Scott shot a pair of these birds of 

 either sex, in January, 1875, in St. Leonard's Cauld. When 



* In the "beginning of August, 1868, Mr. Jerdon and I, in crossing from 

 Threepwood Moss to Colmslie wood, started a Ringed Plover out of a ditch ; 

 and again flushed it at a small pool above Langshaw Mill, in the valley of 

 the Alwen. Mr. Brothereton says, " The Ringed Plover breeds as far inland 

 as Kelso. Mr. T. Lindsay has both the old and young birds, got many years 

 ago on an island in the Tweed at Kelso ; and I have a pair of old birds shot 

 on the island at Banff Mill, three miles below Kelso."— J. H. 



