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the county ; the second was written by Mr. E. I. Shearer, in the 
Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinhurgh (vol. ii. 
pp. 334-341), and supplemented by remarks and additions, up 
to p. 347, by Mr. H. Osborne, and which was read at a meeting of 
the Society on 22d January 1862. In treating of this earlier 
portion of our history of Caithness birds, we have chosen the 
following method. 
We have given place, as Mr. Osborne does, to all the species 
mentioned in Dr. Sinclair's list ; but where there is any reasonable 
doubt of the genuineness of any of those therein contained, the 
the remarks on them are placed in brackets. 
company with Dr. Sinclair himself, saw the collection in the year 1842, and Mr. 
Wilson has the note, " obtained by him exclusively in the county of Caithness." 
Mr. Wilson gives a list of some twenty-nine of the rarer species seen in the 
collection at that time. — Voyage, 1842, vol. ii. pp. 178-180. See also Appendix. 
