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Hebrides or Western Isles, and on the north and 

 west coasts of Ireland. 



Although similar in size and weight to the 

 Stock Dove, it may be always distinguished from 

 that species by the white rump (instead of blue), 

 and by the black bars on the wings. 



TURTLE DOVE. Turtur communis, Selby. PL 18, 

 figs 8, 8a. Length, 11 in. ; wing, 7 in. ; tarsus, -9 in. 



A summer migrant to England and Wales, 

 occasionally to Scotland. One was shot near Ber- 

 wick in the autumn of 1872, as I am informed by 

 Mr. Thomson of Kelso, who saw the bird in the 

 flesh ; one near Haddington (Macgill, ii. p. 480) ; 

 and one near Thurso, Caithness, Nov. 2, 1878 

 (M'Nicol, Field, Nov. 9, 1878). In the Hebrides 

 specimens have , been shot in Islay and Skye, but 

 not in the outer islands. Several instances of its 

 occurrence in Shetland have been reported ; and it 

 has twice been procured in Orkney (Baikie and 

 Heddle, "Fauna Orcadensis," p. 223). In Ireland 

 it is stated by Thompson to be " an occasional, 

 almost an annual, visitant to the cultivated districts 

 in some parts of the island ; but is rare in the west 

 (Warren, Zool, 1882, p. 267). In the summer of 1882 

 one was shot and another seen in Co. Waterford. 



In Oct. 1889 a bird identified by Mr. Seebohm 

 as an immature Asiatic Turtle Dove (Turtur orien- 

 talis) was shot near Scarborough, and is preserved 

 in the York Museum (Proc. Zool. Soc, 1890, and 

 Backhouse, Nat., 1890, p. 258). 



