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bird ill Mr. Small's shop in Edinburgh, in September 1885, 
in fine preservation. Mr. Small had purchased it about 
twenty- seven months previously at a sale at Dowell's 
Auction Eoonis, and soon after sold it to the Earl of 
Haddington, in whose collection it now is. Full particulars 
of its capture are given on a label on the back of the case ; 
and it was also recorded in vol. iii. pp. 182-83 of the Proc. 
Royal PMjs. Soc. of Edinburgh. 
Family CICONIIDii;. 
200. Ciconia alba, Bechst. White Stork. 
201. Ciconia nigra {L.). Black Stork. 
Family PLATALEID^. 
202. Platalea leucorodia, L. Spoonbill. 
Family IBID.^. 
203. Plegadis falcinellus (L.). Glossy Ibis. 
Order 5. ANSERES. 
Family ANATID^. 
204. Chenalopex aegyptiaca ((?m.). Egyptian Goose, 
205. Anser cinereus {Meyer). Grey-lag Goose. 
A summer visitant, not rare, but has become much scarcer 
within the last fifteen years, though not now so much shot 
at in the " flapper " stage as formerly. Less common in 
the south-east than in the central districts, the large lochs 
near Badenloch being an assemblage-ground for the geese of 
that district. Arrives about the beginning of March, and 
leaves the middle of September. 
