BIBDS OBSERVED IN PURBECK. 67 



140. Turtle Dove, Coluniba Turtur. 



145. Common Pheasant, Phasianus Colchicus, 



146. Ring-necked Pheasant, Phasianus torquatus. 



Frequent in the neighbourhood of Kingston. 



149. Black Grouse, Tetrao Tetrix, 



153. Common Partridge, Perdix cinerea, 



156. Common Quail, Perdix Cotumix, 



Has been known to breed in the Island. 



ORDER rV. — GRALLATORES, or WADERS. 



159. Common thick-knee Plover, CEdicnemtis crepitans, 

 A summer visitor. 



161. Golden Plover, Charadrius pluvialis. 



A winter visitor; abundant in certain seasons. 



163. Ringed Plover, Charadrius Hiaticula. 



Common upon the shores of Poole harbour and Stud- 

 land bay, during the autumn and winter, and, I have 

 no doubt, breeds upon the sand-hills. In the spring 

 of 1851, I watched a pair for a considerable time as 

 they flew to and fro from sand-hill to sand-hill, but 

 failed in the attempt to discover their nest 



166. Gray Plover, Vanellus griseus, 



A winter visitor. I have, in my collection, a male and 

 female, which were shot at Ame in Uie spring of 

 1839 ; the breast of the latter nearly approaching 

 to its summer plumage. 



that the Rock Dove, Columba Livia, formerly inhabited the cliffs. But 

 he confounds it ^ith the Stock Dove, which he speaks of in the follow- 

 ing words. "C. anas, (Wild, Wood, or Rock Pigeon, Stock Dove, 

 Pen : ) This is a winter bird of paMage, migrating hither in November, 

 and returning in the spring. In Dorset, it breeds in hollow trees, 

 but most commonly in holes in the cliflft in Purbeck. In hard winters 

 they will take refuge in the dove houses, and leave them in the spring. 



