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among them, selecting such groups for his camera as taste 

 dictates. Not a bird will refuse him a sitting. It is a wild 

 scene but would be far more impressive if it were not so eas- 

 ily reached. But the very accessibility which places the 

 Rock (by way of North Berwick and Cantey Bay) within 

 two hours of Edinburgh commends it to the hurried trav- 

 eler. At the same time, one may visit the ruins of Tantallon 



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Castle on the adjoining mainland and in this shattered but 

 noble old stronghold of the Douglasses, find again the his- 

 torical setting which adds so much to the charm of bird 

 study in England ; or, to speak more strictly, in Great Brit- 

 ain ; for we have crossed the border line into Scotland and 

 are now within an hour or two of a country differing mark- 

 edly in topography and, to a lesser degree, in bird-life from 

 anything we have seen to the southward. 



I must resist, however, the temptation to tell of Bed 

 Grouse, Black Cock and Ptarmigan, Wheatears, Rock 

 Thrushes and Golden Plover, but no bird-lover should resist 

 the temptation to visit the haunts of these birds amid the 

 lochs and heather-grown moors of the Highlands. 



