THE STOCK DOVE IN SCOTLAND 3 



indicate a considerable extension to its known range as a 

 wanderer. This is one of the successes accruing to our annual 

 inquiries into the migratory movements of birds in and around 

 Scotland, to which Mr. Tulloch is a valued contributor. 



A Red-breasted Flycatcher was captured at the Monach 

 Island, some thirteen miles west of North Uist, on the 

 22nd of October 1893, and was forwarded to us in the flesh. 

 This specimen, though " far gone " when received, has by 

 careful treatment been made into a passable mounted specimen, 

 and has been presented by Mr. Tulloch to the collection of 

 British Birds in the Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art. 



The bird is a young male of the year, and agrees well 

 with most of the published descriptions, the four central tail 

 feathers being black. The crop contained, strange to say, 

 several seeds of the canary-grass (Phalaris canariensis) in a 

 stained condition, but the gizzard was quite empty. 



Though this summer visitor to Central and Eastern 

 Europe has on one occasion, in 1883, occurred north of the 

 Tweed, namely at Berwick, yet it has not hitherto been 

 recorded in Scottish territory at least Mr. Muirhead ex- 

 cludes the county of the borough and town of Berwick-on- 

 Tweed from the area treated of in his " Birds of Berwickshire." 



ON THE EXTENSION OF THE DISTRIBUTION 

 OF THE STOCK DOVE (COLUMBA (EN AS} 

 IN SCOTLAND. 



By J. A. HARVIE-BROWN, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. 



ON the 2 ist February 1883 I read a paper at the meeting 

 of the Royal Phys. Soc., entitled "On the Stock Dove 

 (Columba anas], with remarks upon its extension of range 

 in Great Britain." Since that date I have obtained additional 

 evidence of the very rapid and remarkable increase of this 

 species and its farther extensions. This I propose to 

 epitomise in the present paper, because it is thought that 

 separate studies of single species whose increase and ex- 

 tension of range are phenominally rapid and regular are 



