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Notes on Quadrupeds and Birds, 1891. By John 

 . Barrie, Junr., Preston. 



17th March 

 8th April 



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 19th April 

 21st April 



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 23rd April 



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 26th April 

 1st May 



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 6th May 

 29th March 



December 1890. 

 '3annary 1891 



December 1891 



Pied Wagtail, first seen on Whiteadder. 



Common Sandpiper do. 

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 at Preston, 

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 on Lintlaw Farm. 



Sand Martin 



House Martin 



Swallow 



Redstart 



Common Bunting 



Greater and Lesser Whitethroats. 



Wood Warblers in Retreat Woods. 



Wheatears and Whinchats on Stanshiel. 



Cuckoo first heard. 



Corncrake do. 



Tawny Owl's Neat with Eggs at the foot of a 

 tree in Baird's Covert. 



Peregrine Falcon shot at Rigfoot. 



Do. seen at Abbey St. Bathans, and 



Female of the Great Spotted Woodpecker shot 

 in Hoardweel Strip. 



Rough Legged Buzzard seen at Oxendean. 

 Sparrow and Kestrel Hawks are nnmerons, 

 Merlins scarce, Buzzards occasionally seen on 

 Stanshiel and Cockburn Law, Stockdoves num- 

 erous on Stanshiel and Whiteadder Banks. 



QUADRUPEDS. 



Foxes have been pretty numerous this season, and more especially in 

 the Duns Castle and Oxendean woods, there being more roughness than 

 on the adjoining estates. 



Badgers are less numerous. A female was trapped in Bunkle wood in 

 1883; and at the same place on 11th May last, a male was trapped, and 

 other three seen — one was old and the other two young. 



Otters. — A few frequent the Whiteadder, and are occasionally seen at 

 Elba and Cumledge. 



The Ermine and Weasel are not so numerous as in past years, more 

 especially the former. 



Smaller Quadmpeds as the Hedgehog, Brown Rat, Water Vole, Field 

 Vole, Shrew, Wood Mouse, and Mole, are becoming more numerous on the 

 Bunkle estate. 



Squirrels are still plentiful. 



