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the New Statistical Account (1844) — parishes of Lochinaber and 
Langholm, both in Dumfriesshire. Also that old Hastings, the 
birdstuffer at Maxwelltown, assured him he saw one in the year 
1868 at Broomlands, in Kirkcudbrightshire (in lit.). But it is 
apparently very rare in the West of Scotland. Mr. Howard 
Saunders says : “ In the south-east of Scotland it has occasionally 
been known to breed, but it is very rare in the south-west, and an 
exceptional visitor to the north (‘Manual of British Birds,’ p. 143). 
Mr. W. Evans, of Edinburgh, does not believe in the statement 
to the effect that this Shrike has bred in Berwickshire, which 
seems to have been founded only on somebody’s impression that 
a pair had bred, he thinks, because they had been seen in the 
county in May or June. He looks upon the species as probably 
a regular bird of passage in very limited numbers (in lit.). 
IRELAND. 
There is, as far I have been able to discover, only one record of 
this Shrike occurring in Ireland. On the 10th August, 1878, 
a male was shot near Castlereagh, about three miles from Belfast, 
County Down. Five or six others were said to have been in its 
company at the time (‘Zoologist,’ 1878, p. 437). 
V. 
NOTES ON THE HERRING FISHERY OF 1891. 
By Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., Vice-President. 
Read 29th March, 1892. 
As stated in my last report it was my intention to have discontinued 
these notes, not being quite convinced either of their usefulness or 
of their suitability for publication in our ‘ Transactions ; ’ but from 
the number of requests which I have received to proceed with 
them, I presume there are more who take an interest in the local 
