Of Sea Eagles he knows of six nests
occupied this season.
  While we were talking & smoking after
lunch we were joined by
Mr. Forester, a cousin of Mr. Hol[?],
and later by Mr. Clark the Director
of the Edinburgh Museum. The last
a slender, smooth-faced grave-looking
man of not over thirty years, was
much excited about a Siberian Crane
taken on the Hebrides and now
in a taxidermist[']s hands. It is
new to the British Fauna.
  After an hour's talk Mr. H-B. [Harvie-Brown]
excused himself and left me
having first invited me to visit
him at Dunipace House on
Friday. I then returned to
22 Melville St. C & E. [Caroline & Elizabeth] (who had been
to the Castle) soon joined me and we
drove to Fairhaven a fishing village
inhabited by Danes, the women all in short
skirts. Had a fish dinner & returned at 8.
Edinburgh
Sept. [September] 10. Cloudless but the air
somewhat smoky; warmer.
  Spent the morning writing. At
3 P.M. started to drive to the
Fourth Bridge first obtaining a
written permit to go through
Lord Rosebery's grounds which lie
on the way. Had a delightful
drive which is more fully described
in my journal. Found Lord Rosebery's
place very beautiful - in fact in many
ways the most beautiful thing of
the kind that we have seen. It
was alive with small birds, chiefly
Robins in full song. There were also
three Missel [sic[] [Mistle] Thrushes (on a lawn), a
family of Blackbirds, and three
Pheasants, one cock of the old-fashioned,
ringless kind. Rabbits were numerous
but shy, scampering to their burrows
or into gorse thickets long before we
got within gun range.
  Wood pigeons in fair numbers