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and flew off as I drew near. Later in the day I returned to the loch, 

 and found the Shoveller lying up in a thick bed of equisetum ; it allowed 

 me to approach within a few yards before rising, as if unaware of 

 the conspicuous attraction it formed by its white lower neck. In the 

 autumn I saw in Mr. Small's shop a female Shoveller, which he had 

 received on 8th September from Gladhouse Reservoir in Mid- 

 lothian. ROBERT GODFREY, Edinburgh. 



Turtle Dove in West Lothian. On the 2oth of October 1896 

 Mr. David M'Diarmid, head gamekeeper to the Earl of Rosebery, 

 shot a Turtle Dove (Turtur communis] which rose from a stubble- 

 field in Dalmeny Park. The occurrence of this bird in the 

 county is sufficiently rare to deserve being placed on record in the 

 "Annals." CHAS. CAMPBELL, Dalmeny Park. 



Turtle Dove in West Fife. A young male Turtle Dove (Turtur 

 communis] of the year was shot by Mr. C. N. Johnston on 4th 

 September on the farm of Waulkmill, estate of Pitliver, parish of 

 Torryburn, Fifeshire, about 400 yards from the Forth, and at the 

 side of a strip of plantation out of which it rose. J. J. DALGLEISH, 

 Brankston Grange, Fife. 



Turtle Dove in Perthshire. On the ist of October, when 

 out shooting in Glenshee, about 20 miles north of Blairgowrie, we 

 shot a Turtle Dove (Turtur communis}. Perhaps the observation 

 may be of sufficient value for insertion in the " Annals of Scottish 

 Natural History." GEORGE HENDERSON, London. 



Turtle Dove in West Ross-shire. I saw a Turtle Dove (Turtur 

 communis} here in October 1895, and another in June 1896. OSGOOD 

 H. MACKENZIE, Inverewe. 



Turtle Dove in Caithness. A Turtle Dove (Turtur communis} 

 was shot at Shurrery by the keeper there in July last. JAMES STIRLING, 

 Garden. 



Stock Dove on Cumbrae. During a short visit to Cumbrae I 

 saw a pair of Stock Doves (Columba livid) on iSth August. I think 

 they were nesting in the rabbit burrows among the hazel scrub near 

 the shore on the western side of the island. BRUCE CAMPBELL, 

 Edinburgh. 



Capereaillie in Linlithg-owshire. On the gth of November last 

 I shot an old hen Capereaillie (Tetrao urogallus] in a fir strip on 

 Lord Hopetoun's estate of Tartraven, situated on the Bathgate hills 

 about 3-J- miles from Linlithgow and the same from Bathgate. I 

 thought it was a gray hen when I fired at it in thick cover, or I 

 should not have shot it. N. LECKIE, Houstoun. 



Hybrid Blaekeoek and Capereaillie in Peebleshire. On 



2nd October a cross between a Blackcock (Tetrao tetrix) and 

 Capereaillie (Tetrao urogallus) was shot while I was shooting on 

 Netherurd Mains, Peeblesshire. I believe there are a few more 



