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dozen reappeared at Tongue about the 27th-30th, induced to 

 return by a temporary thaw [J. C, in lit., 30th January, 1879]. 

 .Resorted to the sea-coast in N. Aberdeenshire [Rev. A. Grigor, 

 Pitsligo, in lit., 24th February, 1879]. Reported as appearing in 

 vast flocks around N. Berwick, making great havoc amongst the 

 turnips. Few of them perished during the storm, and most of 

 those shot were in good condition [Dr. J. L. Crombie, in lit.]. 

 Such was not the case, however, in many other and more inland 

 localities, as in Stirlingshire, near this, where Wood Pigeons which 

 remained were dreadfully emaciated. Dr. Duns also notices that 

 many were seen around Dunse; and some were found dead in 

 Inverness-shire. 



It was not till the second week in January that dead birds were 

 found near Dumfries [R. Service, Dumfries Courier, 25th March, 

 1879]. In Aberdeenshire they were found lying dead by the 

 dozen in turnip fields, and Mr. Geo. Sim relates that "one gentle- 

 man saw, on his estate, some of this species feeding on a dead 

 companion." — [Scot. Nat, April, 1879, p. 84.] 



A pair of Wood Pigeons were seen in Eig this summer [1879, 

 auct. J. J. Dalgleish, ex ore]. 



I saw Wood Pigeons at Rodel, in Harris, in June this year. 

 I did not learn in what year they first made their appear- 

 ance at this locality, the only likely spot in Harris to shelter 

 them. 



In the Zoologist for October, 1879, it is recorded that no less 

 than 20,529 Wood Pigeons were killed in Banffshire in three 

 years [p. 428]. 



ROCK DOVE. 



Columba livia, Brisson. 



Every one questioned around Kilchoan, in the west end of 

 Ardnamurchan, agrees about the unusual scarcity of Rock Pigeons 

 in 1879, and they are supposed to have been killed or forced to 

 migrate by the severity of the weather. I remember seeing quite 

 a large flock around Kilchoan two years ago. Two or three birds 

 were all I saw there in October of the present year.* 



Mr. J. Cordeaux notes that dead Kock Doves were fouud iu "great 

 numbers" on the Yorkshire coast, quoting Mr. Bailey. [Zoologist, March. 

 1879, p. 127.] 



