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of shooting a specimen in the garden at Jardine 

 Hall, the bird had frequented a break of peas, 

 nearly ripe, for several days, and at last attracted 

 the attention of the gardener, as one not previously 

 known to him. When it was afterwards sought 

 for, it was discovered in the same place, rose 

 with considerable noise, and alighted on a neigh- 

 bouring tree, whence it was shot. The plumage 

 was that of an immature bird. Mr. Yarrell con- 

 siders the Turtle more numerous in the wooded 

 parts of Kent than in other districts of England, 

 but it occurs in most of the southern counties, 

 and becomes only occasionally seen in Yorkshire, 

 Cumberland, and Northumberland, &c. The only 

 other instances of the occurrence of the bird in 

 Scotland, of which we have any record, is that of 

 one killed in Perthshire, in October, 1834 ; * and 

 a few days since (2d October) we saw a fresh 

 skin in possession of Mr. Carfrae of Edinburgh, 

 taken from a specimen killed in Aberdeenshire 

 about a fortnight previously. In Ireland it appears 

 to be equally rare, arid equally a straggler. Out 

 of Britain, it occurs on the continent and on the 

 shores of the Mediterranean, in Asia Minor, j" in the 

 vicinity of Smyrna ; J and it is considered to winter 

 in Africa. In its British localities it is a regular 

 summer visitant, arriving about the end of April 

 or beginning of May, leaving us again in August 

 or September. The love note is described as 



* Mag. of Nat. Hist. vol. viii. t Mr. Fellows. 



J Mr. Strickland. Yarrell, ii. p. 268. 



