. 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 . tsome- Ripplcton. Very rarely visit James Craw, hill. tliis farm. Whitsomehill,14th Oct. 1886. Leetside. Catchhill Visit the farm Occasionally David Herriot, and Merry- sometimes, but alight in Leetside, 11th lees Fields. not so oftenas they did for-merly. autumn, butnot often. Oct. 1886. Whitsome Very seldom visit Thomas Torrance, Laws. this farm. Haveseen them onlytwice on itduring last 20years. Whitsome Laws,23rd O
. 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 . tsome- Ripplcton. Very rarely visit James Craw, hill. tliis farm. Whitsomehill,14th Oct. 1886. Leetside. Catchhill Visit the farm Occasionally David Herriot, and Merry- sometimes, but alight in Leetside, 11th lees Fields. not so oftenas they did for-merly. autumn, butnot often. Oct. 1886. Whitsome Very seldom visit Thomas Torrance, Laws. this farm. Haveseen them onlytwice on itduring last 20years. Whitsome Laws,23rd Oct. 1886. The Hule Moss—a picturesque sheet of water on alonely part of Greenlaw Moor, between Marchmont andDogden Moss, and extending to nearly seventeen acres—isa favourite resort of Wild Geese.^ A correspondent who is well acquainted with theirhabits informs me that they usually come to this haunt inOctober and November, though he has seen them there asearly as the middle of September and as late as spring they frequent the Moss from February to the 1 See Sheet xxi. 4, 54, Ordnance Survey Map of Parish of Greenlaw,extent of the water is 16869 acres. The. THE BEAN GOOSE AND PINK-FOOTED GOOSE. 87 middle of April. They generally arrive in the dusk of theevening, and alight about the middle of the lake, where theyremain for some time, afterwards swimming ashore to reston the heather until the morning, when they depart to feedon the stubble fields. When alighting they sweep downwith a sloping flight into the water, and on windy nightsthey are seen flying low over the moor. Mr. Loney relates that about fifteen or sixteen yearsago a gamekeeper at Marchmont shot seven Wild Geese atthe Moss in one night, when it was so dark that he could notsee where the birds fell. On going in search of them nextmorning he found five lying in the water and two on theheather at its edge. He says that the Geese come regularlyevery year to the Moss in spring and autumn. Greenlaw Moor is
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