310 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



CUCKOO. 



CUCULUS CANORUS, Lin. 



On the 10th of Oct., 1879, Mr. W. Horn again observed the 

 Cuckoo near Aberfeldy. It appears to remain longer in this 

 neighbourhood than elsewhere in Scotland. Cuckoos were scarcer 

 in many places, and are reported scarce from Islay. 



TURTLE DOVE. 



Turtur auritus, Gray. 

 One was sent in to Mr. R. Small, Edinburgh, on the 21st Sept., 

 in the flesh, obtained at Stonehaven. 



QUAIL. 



Ooturnix communis, Bonnaterre. 

 Mr. Geo. Sim had a Quail brought in on the 17th Nov., 1879, 

 killed in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen [in lit., 22, xi., 79], 



BLACK GROUSE. 



Tetrao tetrix, Lin. 

 Black game are late this autumn of moving into the birch 

 woods in any numbers. Up to 11th Nov. no great show of Black 

 game was found in the birch woods of Ardnamurchan, from whence 

 many migrate to Mull, and vice versa, annually — a flight of con- 

 siderable extent. A scarcity in many localities may be directly 

 owing to the wet weather in summer of 1S79, or to the large num- 

 bers killed in patches of grain, as related in the First Report [antea, 

 p. 167]. 



RED GROUSE. 



Lagopus scoticus (Latham). 



It seems desirable that some more permanent record of the 

 state of the game crop should be kept than that of the annual 

 reports in daily papers.* I have not laid any plans as yet with 

 this end in view, and this year I have thought it advisable to 

 quote freely from the newspapers. Accordingly, the following 

 extracts have been collected from different papers: — 



u Disease is only local and not extensive at this date." — Scotsman, 

 6, viii., 80. 



* A summary of the extracts might he sufficient, or it might be made the 

 subject of a separate Report, if some one of our members would take it up 

 for another year. 



