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Landrail or Corncrake {Crex pratensis). — At Alnwick, May 

 1st, 1 heard tlie first Landrail, and lured it within a few feet of 

 me, by the artificial call note. — T.H.G. At Dunse, May 1st. — 

 {Ber. News). May 3rd. — Mr Watson. Stamfordham, May 6th. 

 —J.F.B. At Berwick, May 6th in 1879, April 28th in 1880. 

 Corncrakes were very late in the year 1879. — G.B. At Kelso, 

 heard in the fields, April 23rd. — {Kelso Chron). A Landrail was 

 shot at Mellerstain, 21st Sept. — {lb.) Late in leaving Scotland 

 in 1880. 



Cuckoo {Cuculus canorus). — At Stamfordham, April 26th. — 

 J.F.B. At Belford, May 3rd, scarce. — J.A. At Fans, first 

 heard, May 3rd.~-ij;. R. At Berwick, in 1 879, arrived April 26th; 

 in 1880 last seen, Aug. 25th, the young often remain till Sept. — 

 G.B. At Alnwick, May 3rd, in a brake at Eugley Wood, I saw 

 two birds on the same day, one on the outlook for caterpillars, 

 the other on the wing. On July 26th, I observed an old Cuckoo 

 in Hulne Park, a later date than I had previously noticed. The 

 old birds, particularly the males, usually leave in the first week 

 in July, and those birds that are seen after that date, may be set 

 down either as unusual or unwilling sojourners. The young of 

 the year remain much longer ; indeed I have more than once 

 seen them as late as October.— T. E. Gihl. Frequents gardens 

 at Lowick to feed on the gooseberry caterpillar ; does the same 

 at Pease Mill, Berwickshire. In 1879, first seen May 11th. — In 

 1880, arrived at Belford, Beaumont water. May 7th; in 1879, 

 May 8th. — Br. Rohson Scott. 



Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola). — In Bowshiel dean, the Wood- 

 cocks did not leave till the first week in May, which was late. 

 They arrived at Aikieside in the Pease dean woods, Nov. 2nd, 

 which is accounted early. — J.H. Oct. 20th, one was flushed at 

 Blackburn in Chirnside parish. — Br. Charles Stuart. July 2nd, 

 discovered in Hulne Park a Woodcock's nest with three eggs. 

 Sept. 26th, flushed a Woodcock on Chatton Sandyford moors, 

 but this ho doubt was a bird that had summered with us. — T.H. G. 



Solan Goose {Sula Bassam).—Maj 3rd, 4th, 5th, 1879, Solans 

 commenced passing and returning down the Firth to the open 

 sea. The salmon fishermen expect good catches when they com- 

 mence diving along the coast-line. 



Moor Pipit (Anthus pratensis). — On the Moors above High- 

 chesters. May 4th. — Sept. 6th, there were a few on the coast 

 between Dunbar and Tyninghame. Nov. 12th, a pair seen at a 



