1891. Scotland.
Sept. 10
(No. 3)
Edinburgh. - other cock which was feeding on a
lawn near a hedge belonged to the ringed
species, having a conspicuous white collar around
the lower part of the neck. This species was
introduced within comparatively recent times but 
is rapidly superseding the old-fashioned kind.
If I am not mistaken it is the same bird as
that which has succeeded so well in Oregon.
  Rabbits were rather numerous in this park.
We saw them singly and in little groups feeding
on the lawns and in the wood paths but
always not far from gorse or fern thickets
into which they usually scampered the moment
they caught sight of us.
   On a lawn near the mansion house three Mistle
Thrushes were hopping about. They are huge fellows!
  The most interesting of the afternoon's experiences
was that of seeing an immense flock of Gulls
in a field by the roadside [deleted]green[/deleted] with winter wheat
the young stalks of which were only two or three
inches above the ground. This field was bounded
on one side by the road, on the other three
sides by trees and shrubbery on the Duke's place.
  Most of the Gulls were standing or lying down
on the crest of a knoll about 100 yards from
the road but there were several within thirty yards
or less of the latter and still others flying
about over different parts of the field evidently
looking for food and quite as unmistakably
finding it, also, for they frequently stopped,
hovered a moment, and then swooped down