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Sinclair, Duncan, c1806-1874 (crofter | Barra Head | Berneray | Inverness-shire)

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Note of an unusual bird sighting, 1871

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW119/30
Scope and Contents

Note of an unusual bird sighting collected from Duncan Sinclair, telling how at the end of July or beginning of August 1871 he had seen a bird with 'red wings & white body bill like a duck size about a gannet or less' and has never seen it before or since. The text has been scored through in ink as if to indicate it has been transcribed elsewhere.

Dates: 1871
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / The Carmichael-Watson Collection / Field notebook belonging to Alexander Carmichael

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