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  noticed, 
  it 
  will 
  be 
  seen 
  that 
  Major 
  Chadwick's 
  keeper 
  — 
  Scott 
  — 
  

   found 
  young 
  Sand 
  Grouse 
  in 
  1888, 
  the 
  year 
  previous 
  to 
  that 
  in 
  

   which 
  he 
  sent 
  one 
  young 
  bird 
  1 
  to 
  Cambridge 
  for 
  identification, 
  and 
  

   in 
  almost 
  the 
  same 
  spot. 
  Curiously 
  enough, 
  however, 
  there 
  seems 
  

   to 
  have 
  been 
  at 
  least 
  a 
  month's 
  difference 
  between 
  the 
  times 
  of 
  

   breeding 
  in 
  the 
  two 
  years. 
  In 
  1888 
  the 
  young 
  were 
  found 
  at 
  the 
  

   end 
  of 
  June, 
  and 
  in 
  1889 
  it 
  was 
  not 
  until 
  August 
  8th 
  that 
  Major 
  

   Chadwick 
  picked 
  up 
  and 
  forwarded 
  the 
  one 
  described 
  and 
  figured 
  

   by 
  Professor 
  Newton. 
  

  

  In 
  connection 
  with 
  the 
  foregoing 
  we 
  give 
  some 
  extracts 
  from 
  

   Harvie- 
  Brown's 
  Journal 
  of 
  a 
  visit 
  he 
  paid 
  to 
  that 
  district 
  in 
  June 
  

   1888, 
  showing 
  how 
  very 
  near 
  he 
  was 
  to 
  being 
  the 
  discoverer 
  of 
  the 
  

   nest 
  in 
  the 
  first 
  instance. 
  

  

  First 
  of 
  all, 
  Harvie-Brown 
  visited 
  some 
  land 
  in 
  the 
  possession 
  

   of 
  Mr. 
  Mackessack 
  on 
  the 
  east 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  Findhorn, 
  where 
  the 
  

   proprietor 
  had 
  been 
  preserving 
  a 
  flock 
  of 
  about 
  twenty-six 
  Sand 
  

   Grouse. 
  These, 
  after 
  some 
  considerable 
  difficulty, 
  were 
  found. 
  

   The 
  birds 
  were 
  very 
  wild, 
  and 
  the 
  only 
  thing 
  noted 
  was 
  their 
  

   plover-like 
  flight, 
  and 
  their 
  low, 
  soft, 
  mellow 
  note, 
  which 
  Harvie- 
  

   Brown 
  considered 
  was 
  uttered 
  by 
  the 
  leading 
  bird 
  only. 
  

  

  The 
  day 
  following 
  — 
  July 
  8th 
  — 
  Harvie-Brown, 
  accompanied 
  by 
  

   Brown, 
  birdstufter, 
  Forres, 
  visited 
  the 
  Culbin 
  Sands, 
  and 
  we 
  here 
  

   give 
  a 
  description, 
  verbatim, 
  from 
  his 
  Journals 
  : 
  

  

  *The 
  next 
  day 
  we 
  visited 
  the 
  Culbin 
  Sandhills. 
  Close 
  to 
  

   where 
  the 
  keeper 
  at 
  Moy 
  shot 
  two 
  Sand 
  Grouse, 
  which 
  we 
  saw 
  

   in 
  Brown's 
  shop, 
  Brown, 
  who 
  accompanied 
  us, 
  pointed 
  out 
  the 
  

   weeds 
  upon 
  which 
  they 
  had 
  fed, 
  viz.: 
  — 
  leaves 
  and 
  little 
  berries 
  

   of 
  wild 
  gale, 
  and 
  the 
  red 
  seeds 
  of 
  dwarf, 
  but 
  large-leaved 
  sorrel. 
  

   Crossing 
  through 
  some 
  self-sown 
  and 
  stunted 
  birch 
  plants, 
  after 
  

   passing 
  through 
  a 
  belt 
  of 
  pine-wood, 
  which 
  stretches 
  for 
  miles 
  

   along 
  the 
  inland 
  side 
  of 
  the 
  Culbius, 
  2 
  protecting 
  the 
  agricultural 
  

   land 
  from 
  the 
  persistent 
  sand-drift, 
  we 
  stepped 
  out 
  on 
  the 
  bent- 
  

   covered 
  sandhills, 
  bare 
  sand-wastes 
  rising 
  into 
  hills 
  of 
  one 
  

   hundred 
  feet 
  in 
  height 
  — 
  rearing 
  their 
  laid 
  and 
  dazzling 
  summits 
  

   far 
  above 
  the 
  bent-covered 
  lower 
  hollows. 
  After 
  a 
  walk 
  of 
  less 
  

   than 
  half 
  a 
  mile 
  we 
  came 
  upon 
  one 
  of 
  the 
  broken 
  shingly 
  hollows, 
  

  

  1 
  Now 
  in 
  Major 
  Chml 
  wick's 
  possession, 
  in 
  his 
  house 
  at 
  Findhorn 
  ; 
  scon 
  there 
  by 
  

   Mr. 
  John 
  H. 
  Teeadale, 
  August 
  Kith, 
  189*2, 
  as 
  we 
  are 
  informed 
  l>y 
  him 
  in 
  lit. 
  

   1 
  Kinrorth 
  Wood. 
  

  

  