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wood Moss in the Lauder district; this was the case in 18 10. 
(The American Bittern was recorded from Drumlanrig in 1873, in 
Hist, Ber. Nat. Club, vii., p. 525.) 
White Stork {fiiconia alba). Unknown in the Melrose 
district, though one was captured at Newton by the Sea, in North- 
umberland, in 1843 (see Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, ii., p. 78), and 
another at Scremerston in the same county, January loth, 1874 
(op. cit., vii., p. 180.) 
Spoonbill {Plalatea leucorodia). Has occurred on the Dunbar 
coast, but no nearer. 
Glossy Ibis {Flegadis falcinellus). A specimen was shot on 
August 28th, 1885, at Mindrum, just on the Enghsh side of the 
Border. 
Not many records are to 
be found stating the exact 
species, though all of these are 
found in winter on the East 
Coast and most have occurred 
as stragglers inland ; the 
Gray Lag in various places, 
the Bean at Lauder and the 
Haining, the Pink-footed at 
Presmenan in E. Lothian, the 
White-fronted possibly in Rox- 
burghshire, the Bernacle at 
Yetholm Loch, and the Brent 
Gray Lag Goose 
{Anser cinereus). 
Bean Goose 
(Anser segetwn). 
Pink-footed Goose 
(Anser brachyrhynchus). 
White-fronted Goose 
{A?iser albifrons). 
Bernacle Goose 
{Bernida leucopsis). 
Brent Goose 
{Bernida 
on Oxnam Water. 
[Egyptian Goose {Chenalopex cegyptiaca). In 1878, 
"One specimen was shot in Selkirkshire on loth December, and 
another on St. Mary's Loch on 24th December." (R. Gray, Hist- 
Ber. Nat. Club, viii. p. 500). But this and the following species 
are kept as tame birds on the lochs around.] 
[Canada Goose {Bernida canadensis). Specimens, probably 
escaped from captivity, have been observed at Lauder, Yetholm, 
Kelso, and other places. In the winter and spring of 1866-7, a 
large flock visited the district. {Hist. Ber. Nat. Club, vi. p. 435.) 
Hooper {Cygnus ?nusicus). As a rule only recorded from 
the coast, but often seen inland. Generally the recorders merely 
report a " wild swan." 
Bewick's Swan {Cygnus bewicki). Two specimens from 
