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GAME-BIRDS. 
TURTLE DOVE. Turtur auritus, Gray. 
A summer migrant to England and Wales, occa- 
sionally to Scotland. In Ireland it is stated by Mr. 
Thompson to be “an occasional, almost an annual, 
visitant to cultivated districts in some parts of the 
island.” 
In the Hebrides specimens have been shot in Islay 
and Skye, but not in the outer islands. Dr. Saxby 
has recorded three instances of its occurrence in 
Shetland ; and it has twice been procured in Orkney*. 
Fam. PHASIANID~. 
PHEASANT. Phasianus colchicus, Linneus. 
Resident. The precise date of its introduction into 
Great Britain is uncertain; but there is evidence to 
show that it was prior to the invasion of the Normans, 
and that we are probably indebted for this game-bird 
to the enterprise of the Romans. In my ‘ Ornithology 
of Shakespeare’ (pp. 210-216) I have brought 
together, from various sources, some curious informa- 
tion relating to the early introduction and preservation 
of this bird in England in former times. 
Fam. TETRAONID &. 
CAPERCAILLIE. Tetrao urogallus (Linnzus). 
Originally indigenous in Scotland and Ireland, but 
* Baikie and Heddle, ‘ Fauna Orcadensis,’ p. 55, and R. Gray, 
‘ Birds of the West of Scotland,’ p. 223. 
