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BIRDS. 



p. 140), and as "found over the greater portion of — if not all — the 

 above-mentioned districts of both South and North Britain." Whence 

 Yarrell obtained this information does not clearh^ appear. 



Mr. W. Evans had some further correspondence regarding the 

 specimen in the Perth INIuseum, of which he has kindly forwarded 

 a copy to me. In a letter from Mr. D. Dewar to him of date 23rd Nov- 

 ember 1 904, Mr. Dewar adheres to his record of the bird which passed 

 into the Museum at Perth, and I see no reason to doubt the accuracy 

 of it. Mr. D. Dewar at the same time mentions that another had 

 been seen in Finlarig AVood three years previously, he says, "in the 

 same month," i.e. September. (But in another letter he corrects that 

 date decidedly, to the original date of 2nd May 1902, and simply 

 accounts for it as a very natural slip of memory or misassociation of 

 ideas.) I cannot at present see any good cause to doubt the accuracy 

 of his original statement, notwithstanding this slight variation. 



Besides the above specimen, there are two others in the Perth 

 Museum which bear the following legends on their labels: "Male 

 and female, Stenton Woods, near Dunkeld, summer of 1872." I have 

 not received any further authentication of these two examples. 



In May 1905, I saw Mr. D. Dewar in his own house at Killin, 

 and after some general conversation, or in the course of it, I satisfied 

 myself quite thoroughly of the correctness of his original statements 

 as to the one he obtained himself. I may mention that Mr. Dewar 

 does possess a few foreign birds, i.e. foreign to the local collections he 

 had formed, but he was perfectly clear as to the bird in question. 



I have the following from Mr. W. Berwick, Pathcondie, Moni- 

 mail, Fife: "An irregular visitor. In August 1887 one was shot at 

 Fiddinch, near St. Andrews. In March 1888 two were shot at 

 Cambo, two at Gilston, and one at St. Fort Woods. Mr. W. 

 Evans had not heard of these, nor of any in Fife. I have instituted 

 further inquiries, and these records are repeated, but I have not been 

 able to trace the present possessors of these specimens, if, as is likely, 

 they were preserved. 



lynx torquilla, L. Wryneck. 



Occasional visitant in autumn. Also more rarely in May (see below). ^ 



1 Qjjs. — I recorded a "Wryneck obtained on the Isle of May, 12th September 1885, 

 which was accompanied by another of its own species. The wind was recorded as west- 

 south-west, and nearly a gale, and had been westerly for two days previously. 

 Unfortunately the one obtained wanted the tail. But Mr. Evans on a subsequent 



