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BIRDS. 



One is entered in the Montrose Museum, dated ''Bogmuir (D. 

 Lyall, Esq., of Gullerj^ 1876)," and a second from Fettercairn, the 

 latter with no date. There is one also in the Museum at St. Andrews 

 with the date "February 1865," but with no locality mentioned. 



At the date of 1891 Mr. Malloch told the late Eev. H. A. 

 Macpherson that he only once mounted a Perthshire specimen. This 

 one may possibly be the same as is incidentally made mention of by 

 Mr. Malloch {in. lit. to the Rev. Mr. Macpherson under date of 17th 

 May 1901) as having occurred near Abercairney, Crieff. "Much 

 darker in the plumage," says Mr. Malloch, " than two which I 

 purchased from a dealer in Bristol." No date is given. No doubt 

 the dealer was Mr. Marsden, of Bristol. (Was this Abercairney bird 

 perhaps a specimen of the closely allied American Bittern 1) 



Mr. D. Dewar merely speaks of the Bittern as a " very rare bird " 

 in Strath tay. 



Mr. R. N. Kerr read a paper upon the Bittern in Perthshire and 

 neighbouring counties at the annual meeting of the East of Scotland 

 Union of Scientific Societies in 1887 ; but this paper does not appear 

 to have been printed or circulated, and the title only is given in the 

 Proceedings of that Union (q.v. p. 7, 1896). 



In the north-east Mr. Milne merely quotes Col. Drummond Hay, 

 and says : " Occasional, and only at long intervals." 



Mr. N. Simpson only quotes Col. Drummond Hay, but adds: "I 

 saw a stuffed specimen in a gamekeeper's house some years ago 

 near iNIarykirk." This may be the one mentioned by Col. Drummond 

 Hay as having been shot in 1867 at Bogmuir, near Laurencekirk 

 (Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., 1899, p. 198). 



The Rev. Mr. M'Connochie mentions one killed by a gentleman 

 in a neighbouring marsh "some years ago." (Mr. M'Connochie's 

 note of this to me dates July 1905.) This may perhaps be the same 

 as one of those already mentioned. 



Family IBIDID^. 



Plegadis falcinellus (L.). Glossy Ibis. 



Rare. Occasional visitant. "Very occ. and at rare intervals." Col. 

 Drummond Hay had it entered as above, and has been so quoted 

 since by my correspondents. 



Since then one was shot near Dunning, on the Earn, Perthshire, 

 on 18th September {Trans, and Proc. Perth. Sac. Nat. Science, 1903-4, 



