702 APPENDIX. 



greyish-blue ; the lower tail-coverts white, the lower surface of 

 the dark part of the tail-feathers greyish-black. 



According to Sir William Jardine, in the Statistical Account 

 of Applegarth and Sibbaldie, " The Turtle-Dove (Columba 

 Turtur) was once shot in Jardine-Hall garden." In the 

 Statistical Account of Steventon, in Ayrshire, one is stated to 

 have been " shot in the parish three years ago" (that is, in 

 1835.) 



CARDUELIS SPINUS. SISKIN. Vol. I, p. 400. 



On the 27th December 1 837, I saw three Siskins busily en- 

 gaged in picking the seeds from the cones of an alder-tree, near 

 Aberdour, in Fifeshire. They were so intent on feeding that 

 they paid little regard to myself or my companion, who easily 

 managed to shoot them all, although he obtained only one at a 

 time. They clung to the twigs in the manner of the smaller 

 Redpoll, hanging in various positions, and maintaining a per- 

 fect silence. After two of them had been shot, the third re- 

 turned, and in seeking its lost companions uttered a very plain- 

 tive cry, resembling the syllables ticee, twee, twee, much pro- 

 longed. 



The digestive organs of a male were as follows : The upper 

 mandible concave within, the lower very deeply concave ; the 

 palate arched. The tongue compressed, deep, tapering to a 

 point. The oesophagus is an inch and ten-twelfths long, and 

 has a distinct dilatation or crop, which lies on the right side, 

 and when filled extends to the middle of the neck behind. The 

 stomach is roundish, compressed, five-twelfths of an inch long, 

 {out and a half twelfths broad ; and its muscles are distinct, 

 although not remarkably strong. The intestine is five inches 

 long ; the coeca a twelfth and a half. 



Mr Mactier informs me that in the end of April 1840, he 

 foun^d, in Kincardineshire, a nest containing young. It was 

 attached to the forked branch of a larch. 



