2i 4 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



COLUMBA PALUMBUS (Ring Dove). 



Argyll and Isles Skerryvore, Dec. 21, two at lantern (3 A.M.), 

 one killed, rarely seen. Clyde Ailsa, March 6, one seen. 



COLUMBA CENAS (Stock Dove). 



Tweed Chirnside, Oct. 5, several companies seen, increasing 

 in numbers. 



TURTUR COMMUNIS (Turtle Dove). 



Sutherland Ghett Lodge, Sept. 29. Tweed Chirnside, Oct. 

 10, several in fields. Outer Hebrides Barra, May 22, pair, second 

 occurrence. Argyll Drimnin, Sept. 7, one shot (see " Annals," 

 1897, p. 254). 



CREX PRATENSIS (Land Rail). 



Shetland Bressay, June 4 ; Entherwick, June 5. Sutherland 

 Cape Wrath, May 29. Dee Peterhead, May 26. Forth 

 Morningside, April 25; Comiston, May 7; Aberlady, May n; 

 Dalmeny, May 12. Tweed Hallmyre, April 29; Chirnside, May 

 3, early, August i o. Outer Hebrides Barra, April 26. Argyll and 

 Isles Tiree, May 18. Clyde Cathcart, April 25. Sohvay Mull 

 of Kintyre, May 19. 



Earliest, April 25, Morningside, Edinburgh, and Cathcart. 



RALLUS AQUATICUS (Water Rail). 

 Argyll and Isles Tiree, Nov. 5. 



CEDICNEMUS SCOLOPAX (Stone Curlew). 

 Muirhouse, August 12 (see "Annals," 1897, p. 225). 



EUDROMIAS MORINELLUS (Dotterel). 

 Moray Badenoch, Glen Feshie, June 30. Have young. 



CHARADRIUS PLUVIALIS (Golden Plover). 



Shetland June 28, beginning to flock. Orkney North Ronald- 

 shay, July 12, many. Sutherland Dunnet Head L.H., May 5, 

 in flocks; May 29, eleven. Moray Badenoch, April 6, still in 

 flocks. Dee Peterhead, Sept. 29, numerous. Tay Auchinblae, 

 Sept. 26, flock; Tayfield, Oct. 16, first big flock. Forth Dalmeny, 

 Oct. 2. Outer Hebrides Monach, Oct. i, one killed at lantern; 

 Oct. 6, flock. Argyll and Isles Tiree, Sept. 16, in large flocks; 

 Oct. 10, enormous flocks. Clyde Langside, Aug. 28, flock. 



