Identifier: birdsofberwicksh02muir (find matches)
Title: The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Muirhead, George
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: Edinburgh, David Douglas
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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rish in Berwick-shire—the Eev. Andrew Baird, minister of the unitedparishes of Cockburnspath and Oldcambus, who says that it is tolerably abundant; but this must be due to omis-sion. The following is a list of the various parishes in thecounty where this bird is now to be found: — Abbey St.Bathans, Channelkirk, Cockburnspath, Coldingham, Cran-shaws. Duns, Earlston, Gordon, Greenlaw, Langton, Lauder,Legerwood, Longformacus, Mordington, Oldhamstocks, Pol-warth, and Westruther. It is considered to be very plentifulin the neighbourhood of Byrecleugh, the Duke of Eox-burghes shooting lodge, in the parish of Longformacus, andat Carfrae, in the parish of Channelkirk. As instancesof the abundance of Grouse in these two localities, Imay mention that Mr. James Smith, shepherd, Byre-cleugh, told me in July 1886 that the Duke, about1871, killed on the 13th of August, between nine A.M.and six p.m., 69 brace of Grouse to his own gun; and ata Grouse drive in 1885 his Grace shot 35 birds from one
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THE RED GROUSE. 165 box. ^ Sir George Houston-Boswall, Bart, of Blackadder,informed me, on the 6th of September 1886, that whenhe was shooting with Lord Tweeddale near Carfrae Mill onthe Lammermuirs on the 12th, 13th, and 14th of Augustin that year, the following bags of driven Grouse were gotby a party of nine guns :—12 th August, 161 brace j^ 13 thAugust, 85 brace; 14th August, 122 brace; in all, 368brace. The 85 brace were got between Lammerlaw andCarfrae Mill. Colonel Brown of Longformacus tells me thatvery large bags of Grouse were got during the shootingseason of 1872 on the whole of the Lammermuirs, thegreatest number being obtained on the Byrecleugh ground,where over 700 brace were shot in a fortnight by threeguns. On the 12th of August 1882, Mr. George Turnbull ofAbbey St. Bathans, Lord Low, and another gentleman,whilst shooting on EUemford moors, bagged 2^^ brace ofGrouse; on the 12th of August 1889, 20 brace; and onthe 12th of August 1891, 20^ brace; all killed overdogs.

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