Supplement to Bird-Distribtition Paper. 479 



Capercally. Scotland only. Shaw's " General Zoology," vol. xi., pt. 2 

 (1819), p. 268, foot-note: "The late G. Montagu, however, was 

 present when one was killed near the upper end of Loch Lomond, 

 about 35 years since." Formerly abundant in Sutherland. 

 Black-Grouse. For "Beswyn mountains" read " Berwyn mountains."' 

 Red Grouse. 

 Ptarmigan. Read distribution as follows : 



Provinces XIII. XIV. ? XV.-XVIII. 

 Subprovinces 26, 28?, 29-36, (37). 



(XIII. 26.) Until 1822 a few in Dumfries and Galloway (R. Service 

 in"Zool.," 1887). 



[Other notes which here follow were incorporated in the paper 

 which Mr. More contributed to the * Zoologist " for Feb., 1885.] 

 For " Thompson, B. Brit.," read "Thompson, B. of Ireland." 



Common Partridge. 



Red-legged Partridge. Not in Scotland. To counties add Middlesex 

 (J. E. Harting). In Somerset two were shot in Sept., 1879, on the 

 manor of Compton Bishop by Mr. C F. Edwards, who was informed 

 by the keeper that others fed in the coverts with the pheasants 

 (J. E. H., note). 



Quail. In second paragraph read " in the county of Armagh I have 

 myself heard its note during the breeding-season, and shot many 

 birds in winter." 



Great Bustard. Not in Scotland. 



Stone Curlew Not in Scotland. Summer visitor. North breeding 

 limit is in England. To counties add Wilts. " Zoologist," 1877, 

 p. 183 ; also p. 60. 



Golden Plover. 



Dotterel. Add subprovince 29. Perth (E. T. Booth). Summer 

 visitor. 



Ringed Plover. For " a smaller race " read " the continental or typical 

 hiaticula" 



Kentish Plover. Not in Scotland. A summer visitor, breeding in S. 



Sweden, Denmark, Holland (Seebohm, Ch. p. 168). 

 Lapwing . Resident. 



[Turnstone. Strepsilas interpres. See " Harting' s Handbook," 

 pp. 44-45. Nest once found in Shetland (see Saxby, " B. S.," 

 p. 171). 



On Fame Islands formerly plentiful ; an egg in 1863 (fide Dr. 

 Embleton), Harting' s Handbook). 



An egg seen in 1873 in possession of the keeper by Mr. Tennant 

 (W. E. Clarke). Staffa, believed to breed (Gray). 



Breeds from Arctic sea to the Danish Isles in Baltic. 

 (Seebohm).] 



