Oban to Edinburgh, Scotland.
1891.
Sept. 5.
  Cloudy with hard steady rain most of the day.  
  took the 8.20 train from Oban for Edinburgh. Scenery
through the mountains very fine. heather past its prime but
still richly colored in places. Saw covey of about 8 Grouse.
They rose near track and flew about 200 yards, finally alighting
all together. Flight like Quails and about as swift. near Stir-
ling saw a man beating a clover field with a red Irish setter,
presumably for Partridges. A fisherman at two different places
on standing waist deep in water casting a fly.
  Between Stirling and Edinborough saw immense numbers of
rooks, Lapwings and Gulls in uplands pastures and stubble fields
sometimes all three species together, oftener each by itself.
In one field there must have been fully 500 Lapwings, in another
as many Gulls. All the Gulls which I saw close enough to recog-
nize were L. ridibundus.
  In small locks north of Callender I saw a good many Bald
Coots and a few Mallards.
  Reached Edinburgh at 2 P.M.