BIRDS. 167 



ORDER FULICARIAE. 



Fam. Rallidae. 



Crex pratensis, Bechstein. -Corn-Crake or Land-Rail. C. in summer. 

 Porzana maruetta (Leach}. Spotted Crake. Recorded from Ayr (twice), 



Renfrew (Gray), Bute (on Pladda), Dumbarton (L. Lomond, several), 



Argyll (marshes by the R. Add), on our borders. 



P. bailloni (Vieillot). Baillon's Crake. One Lochwiimoch, May, 1893. 

 Rallus aquaticus, Linnaeus. Water-Rail. Frequently included in the 



Statistical Account, 60 yrs. since ; still probably not r. Its habits rarely 



bring it under notice. 



Gallinula chloropus (Linnaeus}. Moor-hen. C. 

 Fulica atra, Linnaeus. Common Coot. C. 



ORDER ALECTORIDES. 



Fam. Otididae. 



Otis tarda, Linnaeus. Great Bustard. Mentioned in the Statistical 

 Account of the parish of Maybole (1837). One found in the sea at 

 Irviue, 6/1895 (Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1895, p. 253). 



ORDER LIMICOLAE. 



Fam. Oedicnemidae. 



Oedicnemus scolopax (S. G. G'meh'n). Stone-Curlew. One shot at Muir- 

 house, Stirling, Aug. 1895 (Annals Scot. Nat. Hist., 1897, p. 225). 



Fam. Glareolidae. 



Cursorius gallicus (Gmeh'n). Cream-coloured Courser. One shot near 

 Lanark, 7/10/1868 (Gray). 



Fam. Charadriidae. 



Eudromias morinellus (Linnaeus). Dotterel. " Frequents the Kells Range " 



betw. Kirkcudbright and Ayr (R. Service) ; shot nr. Glasgow (Gray) ; 



Carluke parish, Lanark (D. Pringle) ; observed L. Ranza (MacGillivray) ; 



Luss, Dumbarton (Stat. Account Scot., 1796). 

 Aegialitis hiaticola (Linnaeus). Ringed Plover. C. by the sea, infreq. by 



inland lakes, but observed there on passage. 

 Charadrius pluvialis, Linnaeus. Golden Plover. C. 

 Squatarola helvetica (Linnaeus). Grey Plover. Very r. Mr. Chas. Berry, 



Lendalfoot, Ayr, has seen it twice or thrice, and has one which he shot. 



Mr. Jolm Robertson has recorded one recentlv from E. Renfrew. 



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Vanellus vulgaris, Bechstein. Lapwing. Abundant. 



Strepsilas interpres (Linnaeus). Turnstone. Middle of August till first 

 week in June on shores of Clyde. Abund. in some Iocs., as N. of 

 Girvan, in autumn ; nowhere r. 



Haematopus ostralegus, Linnaeus. Oyster-catcher. C. by the sea. Occa- 

 sional on inlaud lochs, breeds at L. Lomond. 



Himantopus candidus, Bonnaterre. Black-winged Stilt. One killed Port- 

 Glasgow, 1850 ; one seen Possil Marsh, 1867 (Gray). 



Phalaropus fulicarius (Linnaeus). Grey Phalarope. Occasionally in winter. 



Scolopax rusticula, Linnaeus. Woodcock. Frequent, nests sporadically 

 throughout the area. 



Gallinago major (Gmeliii). Great Snipe. Ayr (several), Argyll (two), 

 E. Renfrew (two), Dumbarton (two). 



G. coelestis (Frenzel). Common Snipe. C. 



G. gallinula (Linnaeus). -Jack Snipe. C. in winter. 



Tringa maculata, Vieillot. Pectoral Sandpiper. A female shot on L. 

 Lomond, 11/1882. 



