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in a rocky face of a hill, about, I should think, 1000 feet 

 above the level of the sea, in a hole under some rank heather, 

 or what was very like a rabbit's old seat." 



Mr J. J. Dalgleish recorded the occurrence of this species 

 in the Culross or southern district of Perthshire, " a detached 

 and purely lowland portion of that county." He goes on to 

 say : " The first was shot at Tulliallan by Mr Millar, game- 

 keeper there, on the 27th of last month (?) ; and the other " 

 — which was the bird exhibited to this Society — " was shot 

 on my property of West Grange, in the parish of Culross," 

 by Mr John Livingstone, gamekeeper. The former has, I 

 believe, been presented to the Museum of the Alloa Society 

 of Natural Science" {Proc. Boy. Phys. Soc, 1876-1878, 

 p. 288). 



In Perthshire, also, Colonel Drummond Hay, in his " Notes 

 on the Birds of the Basin of the Tay," 1879-80, p. 33, instances 

 several obtained in, or prior to, 1878, including those nesting, 

 as recorded by Mr Brooke of Cardney, a bird seen by himself 

 in the Carse o' Gowrie, probably breeding in the Glencarse or 

 Balthayoch rocks, and the two examples obtained in the 

 southern part of Perthshire in 1878, as recorded above by Mr 

 Dalgleish. I have since learned, however, that in 1880 and 

 1881 these birds came in immense quantities to the Carse o' 

 Gowrie in spring — say middle of April — but in 1882 they 

 were very scarce {in. lit, G. H. Baxter to Mr Cook, 1883). 



In the next instance, Mr Eobert Gray brought before the 

 notice of this Society the occurrence of the stockdove in 

 Berwickshire {Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc, 1878-79, p. 131), and in 

 1881 the bushy lime tree, in which a nest of this species was 

 found, was pointed out to myself by Mr Waitt, the birdstufifer 

 of Duns. It is a lime tree with a thick, dense growth of 

 suckers in the centre, of which there are several similar ones 

 in the policies near the castle. By Mr Gray's account, the 

 species must have bred for several years in that county, but 

 we have no earlier records that I am aware of. More than a 

 dozen were seen on the 11th March 1879, on which day a 

 specimen was procured for Mr Gray. At the same time they 

 are reported as " increasing every year in numbers," migrating 

 in severe weather to the coast, but invariably returning again 



