86 BRITISH BIRDS. 



also refers to the " song," which accompanies these actions, 

 and this he describes as " a loud, rough and purring, slightly 

 double note which I write down da-ah, but the note is probably 

 insusceptible of expression by syllables." 



TuRTLE-DovE AT THE IsLE OF MAY.-Mr. W. Evans 

 records that he saw a specimen of Turtur communis on the isle 

 of May on June 1st, 1911 [Ann. Scot. Nat Hist., 1911, p. 184). 



