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inferior surface (Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. vi. p. 359). • Of other 
recent examples^ I may name an adult male killed near Stranraer 
in the autumn of 1884; and another old male, shot at Lauriston 
near Castleton, December 14th, 1889. This last was a double- 
barred bird ; the lower parts white, with very scanty traces of 
vermiculations. On opening its body, I found the remains of a 
Shrew (Sorex). In 1890, my friend^ Mr. T. Bell of Liddel Bank, 
near Canonbie, observed a double-barred Grey Shrike on February 
24th^ but contented himself with examining the bird closely with 
a powerful glass. 
II. TWEED AREA. 
The ornis of a large portion of this area has been exceptionally 
well explored by the members of the Berwickshire Naturalists' 
Field Club. In Vol. I. of his "Birds of Berwickshire," a work which 
is chiefly a valuable resume of the avian memoirs of the B.N.C., 
Mr. Muirhead mentions about a dozen specimens of this Shrike as 
killed in Berwickshire. I have no doubt that it is in fact an almost 
annual visitant to Berwickshire. Chambers, in his " History of 
Peebleshire," includes the Great Grey Shrike as a rare visitant to 
that county. In Selkirkshire, a male bird was shot at Bowhill on 
]\[arch 9th, 1876 (Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. iv. p. 115). 
III. FIRTH OF FORTH AREA. 
To no part of Scotland are the visits of this fine Shrike more 
frequently paid than to this area. 
The present winter, 1890-91, has been marked by an unusual 
scarcity of this species throughout Great Britain ; but Mr. W. 
Evans tells me that a single example was shot upon the Forth early 
in the season. The late Dr. Smith on many occasions exhibited 
specimens of the Great Grey Shrike before the Royal Physical 
Society of Edinburgh, the birds being obtained within the limits of 
this area, and five or six being often obtained in a single winter. I 
may cite, in passing, a few of these occurrences, viz., an immature 
bird, shot at Dunbar in November, 1858; an adult male shot at 
Tulliallan near Kincardine^ March 30th, 1859; one killed at 
Alloa and another at Fenton Barns in October, 1865 ; one seen 
near Edinburgh, and another shot at Dunipace in February, 1866 
(Zool. 1867., p. 143) ; one shot at Ormiston, Haddingtonshire, in 
