THE. LIMICOLA:,.OF THE CLYDE 
AREA. 
By JoHN ROBERTSON. 
(Read rith March, 1913.) 
OF the order Limicolz, which includes the waders, thirty-five 
species have been recorded for the Clyde area. Of that 
number only ten species, marked with an asterisk, nest within 
our limits. Twelve others are more or less familiar either as 
birds of passage or as frequenting our coasts during the 
winter months. Of the remainder, five are infrequent and 
uncertain visitors, and eight are known only as rare 
stragglers. 
Stone-Curlew (Gdicnemus scolopax (S. G. Gmelin) )—One 
shot at Muirhouse, Baldernock Parish, in August, 1895, is the 
only occurrence known of this species in the area, (‘‘ Annals 
of Scottish Natural History,” 1897, p. 225.) 
Cream-coloured Courser (Cursorius gallicus (J. F. Gmelin) )— 
There is only one record, a bird shot near Lanark, 7th October, 
1868. (Gray, ‘‘ Birds of the West of Scotland,” p. 250.) 
*(2) Dotterel (Hudromias morinellus (L.) )—Old or compara- 
tively old records of this species refer to the Kells Range on 
the south-east side of Loch Doon (R. Service); near Glasgow 
(Gray); Carluke Parish (D. Pringle); Loch Ranza (MacGillivray); 
and Luss (“Statistical Account of Scotland,” 1796). Within 
recent years single birds have been seen or obtained at 
Bellshill, Kilchattan Bay, and Blantyre. There is a probability 
that a very few birds may still breed on the Galloway Hills 
just south of the Ayrshire border, as on 17th July, 1898, on 
Benyellary, I heard and saw indistinctly through the mist a 
bird which I believe was a dotterel. Elsewhere in the area it 
is a very rare straggler. The dotterel has a peculiar jarring 
note, difficult to describe, a little like one of the notes of the 
turnstone, but not so loud or distinct. 
*Ringed Plover (Mgialitis hiaticola (L.))—This is an 
abundant species by the shores of the Firth of Clyde, and 
