162 A HAND-LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



DISTRIBUTION. England and Wales. Summer-resident (late April 

 and early May to Sept. and occasionally later : one Dec., one Feb.). 

 Breeds chiefly south, east, and midlands : infrequent Cornwall and 

 western Wales, but lately spread to Bangor (Carnarvon) and west 

 Merioneth and Montgomery, much increased Cheshire, infrequent 

 Lanes., very rare (but has bred) Cumberland, breeds eastern half 

 Yorks. as far north as Bipon and Scarborough. Northwards 

 irregular migrant, but has bred Durham. Scotland and Ireland. 

 Summer- and autumn- visitor. Occurs irregularly most parts Scot- 

 land, even northern and western isles, but does not breed. In 

 Ireland regular, but scarce, visitor to south coast, a vagrant to other 

 maritime counties, and rare vagrant inland, chiefly May and June, 

 less frequently autumn, and said to have bred two or three times. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Europe from Scandinavia and north 

 Russia to Mediterranean and westernmost Asia ; in winter in north 

 Africa, south to Abyssinia and Red Sea. Replaced by allied races 

 in north Africa, Persia and probably other parts of western Asia. 



STREPTOPELIA ORIENTALIS 



349. Streptopelia orientalis orientalis (Lath.) THE 

 EASTERN RUFOUS TURTLE-DOVE. 



COLUMBA ORIENTALIS Latham, Ind. Orn., n, p. 606 (1790 China. Ex 



Sonnerat). 



Turtur orientalis (Latham), Saunders, p. 487. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. One. A young bird near Scarborough 

 (Yorks.) Oct. 23, 1889 (Seebohm, Proc. Zool. Soc., 1890, p. 361). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Manchuria, Corea and Japan, throughout 

 China to Himalayas and central India. Casual in Denmark and 

 Sweden. Races perhaps not yet fully known, but certainly replaced 

 by AS', orientalis ferrago in south-west Siberia, Turkestan to Kashmir 

 and Xepal. 



[XoTE. Five examples of the AMERICAN PASSENGER-PIGEON, Ectopistes 

 migratorius (L.), have been recorded as shot in the British Isles ; one had 

 certainly escaped from captivity and the others had no doubt also (Yarrell, 

 in, p. 26 ; Saunders, p. 487). The species is now apparently extinct.] 



SYRRHAPTES PARADOXUS 



350. Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Pall.) PALLAS 'S SAND- 

 GROUSE. 



TETRAD PARADOXA Pallas, Reise d. versch. Prov. d. Russ. Reichs, n, p. 712. 



pi. F (1773 Tartary desert). 



Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Pallas), Yarrell, in, p. 31 ; Saunders, p. 488. 



DISTRIBUTION. British Isles. Irregular visitor. Greatest inva- 

 sions, May, 1863 and 1888, arriving along whole east coast Great 

 Britain and spreading over greater part British Isles, reaching even 



