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Donegal to appoint a day and have an organized hunt. Certain 

 passes were known and appointed, toward which the whole available 

 beaters drove the Deer, and a palisade on each side was repaired, 

 which narrowed little by little as it approached a bog. Here right 

 across the mouth of the palisaded route was dug a very deep trench in 

 the bog, at the bottom of which were upright sharp stakes, and all this 

 was lightly covered with heather. This story carries one back, I should 

 say, to the beginning of the eighteenth century. 



" The manner in which the last Deer was killed is as follows, and 

 happened quite in the old man's lifetime, if I recollect aright : — There 

 was a single surviving Stag frequenting Glenveigh. Many times he 

 was hunted, but never could be shot. It was observed that whenever 

 the chase took a certaiii direction he evaded his pursuers, and those 

 lying in wait, by making for a path which crossed the precipitous face 

 of a mountain (probably one of those on the far side of the lake from 

 the present castle). This path at one place was broken off, and the 

 Stag jumped the gap, and followed the track on the other side. On 

 one occasion an old woman, hearing the shouting, concluded that the 

 quarry was once again trying this method of escape. She was on the 

 far side of the gap, and so, taking off her red petticoat, she placed it on 

 the stone on the edge where the Deer would alight when he took his 

 usual leap. The animal, coming to the off-take, swerved in his jump 

 to avoid the unwonted and surprising coloured garment. He slipped 

 on alighting, and could not retrieve his footing, but fell down and was 

 killed." 



In the ' Newcastle Daily Journal ' for July 8th there appeared a 

 communication respecting the occurrence of the Eustic Bunting in the 

 North of England. Mr. Thomas Thompson, of Winlaton, writes as 

 follows : — 



"It is over six months ago since I mentioned to you that I hoped 

 to have something to say respecting a 'Eustic Bunting' (Emberiza 

 rustica). Mr. I. E. Slack, a neighbour of mine, had it exhibited at 

 the Crystal Palace cage-bird show in January last, where ' Mr. Walter 

 Swaysland was one of the judges, and he pronounced it most emphati- 

 cally to be not a Eustic Bunting.' The words I have just quoted are 

 taken from the ' Feathered World,' a newspaper published in London. 

 This bird has been in Mr. Slack's possession since 1903, and was 

 caught near Seaton Sluice, Northumberland. I compared the speci- 

 men with a skin I obtained from London a few weeks ago, and it 

 agreed with the latter closely. I may also state that Canon H. B. 



