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This list taken up day and place f orsd by me. 



GEO. HOME. 



6. CranshawB. 

 I Mr Archibald Borthwick Minr of the Gospell at Greenlaw hereby enacts 

 myself as Cautioner for Mr John Campbell Minr of the GospeU at Cranshaws 

 that shall obtempore and obey any sentence that the Shiriffi prpall of 

 Berwickshire or his Deputs shall pronounce in the action of removing pur- 

 shued at the instance of David Denham of Cranshaws agt the s<i Mr Camp- 

 bell. And I the scl Mr Campbell obliges me to relieve my sd cautioner of all 

 skaith that he may sustain through becoming cautioner for me in manner 

 above writen In Witness qr of these prts are subscribed by us and writen 

 by me the said Mr Campbell at Greenlaw the ten day of Aprile Jm vii and 

 seven years [1707] before these witnesses Mr David Brown Minister of the 

 Gospell and Mr Alexr Cockburn brother gudeman* to the Laird of Eeyslaw. 



A BORTHWICK 

 Jo- CAMPBELL 

 David Brown witness 

 Alexr Cockburn witness 

 [John Campbell, A.M, laureated at the University of Kdinburgh, 28th 

 June, 1697. became chaplain to Sir John Swinton of that ilk ; was licensed 

 by the Presbytery of Chirnside 4th Nov., 1701; called to Cranshaws 8th 

 Nov., 1705; ordained assistant and successor 28th March, 1706; died 16th 

 Jan., 1759, in his 84th year and 53d of his ministry. He married 12th June 

 1707, Elizabeth Craig, iu the parish of North Berwick, by whom he had a 

 family. — Eev. Hew Scott's Fasti, etc.] 



* [?] german. 



Ornithological Notes. By Robert Gray, F.R.S.E. 



Honey Buzzard {Buteo apivorus). — A female bird of this 

 species was sbot at Colinsburgli, Fifeshire, on 16tli June, 1881, 

 and was skinned and stuffed by Mr Hope, George Street, Edin- 

 burgh, in whose hands I saw it. 



Hobby {Falco Subluteo). — A most beautiful male was found 

 dead near Belford, on 24th September, 1881. It was sent to IVIr 

 Small, Edinburgh, for preservation, and I had an opportunity of 

 examining it shortly after it was received. 



Great Grey Shrike {Lanius excuhitor). — Various examples of 

 this species, killed in East Lothian and Berwickshire, have come 

 under my observation during the past year. They were all dis- 

 tinguished by the double white spot upon the wing. It would 

 be well, however, for members of the Club to scrutinize carefully 

 any specimens of Grey Shrike which they may have an oppor- 



