184 BIRDS OF CHESHIRE. 
With regard to the occurrence of the Sand Grouse 
in the county during the invasion of 1888-89, Mr. T. 
Comber of Parkgate has furnished us with the follow- 
ing particulars:—‘A large colony established itself at 
Storeton on land belonging to Mr. Brocklebank, who 
allowed his keeper to shoot several specimens for 
friends. Plenty were, however, left to breed, and it 
was hoped that they would do so, but this was 
not realised. It was probably an outlying lot of this 
colony which was watched several times on the few 
sandhills below Heswall Church. On one occasion a 
flight of five or six flew over my tennis-court at Park- 
gate, and we at once spotted them as strangers, but it 
was not until afterwards that I discovered what they 
were. An adult female in the Liverpool Museum was 
shot at Storeton on June Ist, and Mr. G. Sherewood 
has two others captured in the same locality. 
1 Dobie, op. cit. p. 329. 
