APPENDIX. 



ADDITIONAL OBSERVATIONS 



EELATIVE TO THE 



BIRDS DESCRIBED IN THE FIRST, SECOND, 

 AND THIRD VOLUMES. 



COTURNIX DACTYLISONANS. COMMON QUAIL. 

 Vol. I, p. 233. 



Mr Hepburn informs me that the Common Quail was seen by 

 him in East Lothian, on the 29th of May 1839. " Till then," 

 he adds, " I had never heard its call-note, which I imitated so 

 successfully as to decoy two different birds within six feet of 

 the place where I was standing. Although I nearly struck 

 one of them with a stick, it returned in the course of half an 

 hour. They might easily be shot, as they raise up their head 

 when advancing toward you. A friend informs me that they 

 are by no means rare in the parishes of Dirleton and Athel- 

 staneford. In the middle of September 1833, I saw several 

 quails that were shot in the meadows of the Clyde, in the 

 upper ward of Lanarkshire." 



COLUMBA PALUMBUS. RINGED DOVE. Vol. I, p. 259. 



The following note is from Mr Hepburn : " A man well 

 advanced in life informs me that, fifty years ago, the boy who 



