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and on making inquiries, found that numbers of these birds 

 had bred in the woods about Dunse Castle for several years. 

 They had first attracted the keeper's attention by the differ- 

 ence of their call. They are increasing every year in num- 

 bers. Shortly after seeing the bird, I observed in a report of 

 a meeting of the Eoyal Physical Society a notice of its 

 occurrence in Perthshire, and I then wrote to you on the 

 subject. At the commencement of the snowstorm in Decem- 

 ber last the colony migrated, I suppose, to the coast, and 

 returned about a week ago. 



" Last year the keeper, Alexander Hewit, secured a pair of 

 young birds from the nest, and has them still. They are 

 rather wild, but perhaps that arises more from want of 

 society than from inherent wildness. They are perfect 

 beauties." 



Prom this information, it would appear that the stockdove 

 has been a regular visitant in the woods of Dunse Castle, 

 and in all probability other parts of Berwickshire, for years 

 past, and that it has regularly bred there. Ornithologists are 

 certainly indebted to Mr Watson for having recognised this 

 interesting bird when submitted to him last year, and for 

 having announced the fact of its being now a native of Scot- 

 land. Personally I have to thank him for having brought 

 the facts now communicated under my notice, and I now 

 place them on record in the Proceedings as facts of interest, 

 inasmuch as they give an extended range to the distribution 

 of the stockdove in Britain. 



XIX. Note on the Occurrence of the Starry Bay (Eaia radiata 

 of Donovan), in the Firth of Forth. By Chas. W. 

 Peach, Esq., A.L.S. 



(Read 19th Marcli 1879.) 



A short time ago Mr G. Dickson Moffat, fish merchant, of 

 38 Dundas Street, sent me two fine specimens of the Starry 

 Pay, Baia radiata of Donovan and of Fleming's, "British 

 Animals," p. 170, sp. 20. As it is rare to me, and was so both 

 to Yarrell and Couch, the former having seen one from Ber- 



