128 RARE VISITANTS,. 
Order III. RASORES. 
Fam. COLUMBID &. 
PASSENGER PIGEON. Columba migratoria, Lin- 
neeus. 
Hab. North America to High Central Plains. 
One, Monymeal, Fifeshire, 31st Dec. 1825: Fleming, Hist. 
Brit. An. p. 145. 
One near Royston, Hertfordshire, July 1844: Yarrell, Hist. 
Brit. Birds, vol. 1. p. 317. 
One seen near Tring, Hertfordshire: Yarrell, op. cit. 
One near Mellerstain, Berwickshire, shot by Lord Hadding- 
ton: Turnbull, Birds of East Lothian, p. 41%. 
Fam. PTEROCLID &. 
PALLASS SANDGROUSE. Syrrhaptes paradoaus (Pal- 
las). 
Hab. Astracan, Turkestan, and particularly the Kirghiz 
Steppes. 
First included in the British list by Mr. T. J. Moore 
(Zoologist, 1859, p. 6728; Ibis, 1860, p. 105) from a 
specimen obtained at Tremadoc, North Wales, on the 
9th July, 1859}. It was in company with two others 
* A gentleman in Berwickshire, however, had turned out several 
Passenger Pigeons, shortly before the Mellerstein specimen was 
shot (Turnbull, /. ¢.). 
+ A specimen in the Lynn Museum was also procured in July, 
1859, at Walpole, St. Peters, Norfolk (Rey. F. L. Currie, Ibis, 1859, 
p. 472: Stevenson, Birds of Norfolk, vol. i. p. 337). 
