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TURTLE DOVE. Turtur auritus, Gray. 



A summer migrant to England and Wales, occa- 

 sionally to Scotland. In Ireland it is stated by Mr. . 

 Thompson to be "an occasional, almost an annual, 

 visitant to cultivated districts in some parts of the 

 island." 



In the Hebrides specimens have been shot in Islay 

 and Skye, but not in the outer islands. Dr. Saxby 

 has recorded three instances of its occurrence in 

 Shetland ; and it has twice been procured in Orkney*. 



Fam. PHASIANID.E. 

 PHEASANT. Phasianus colchicus, Linnaeus. 



Resident. The precise date of its introduction into 

 Great Britain is uncertain; but there is evidence to 

 show that it was prior to the invasion of the Normans, 

 and that we are probably indebted for this game-bird 

 to the enterprise of the Romans. In my ' Ornithology 

 of Shakespeare' (pp. 210-216) I have brought 

 together, from various sources, some curious informa- 

 tion relating to the early introduction and preservation 

 of this bird in England in former times. 



Fam. TETRAONID.E. 

 CAPERCAILLIE. Tetrao urogallus (Linnaeus). 



Originally indigenous in Scotland and Ireland, but 



* Baikie and Heddle, * Fauna Orcadensis,' p. 55, and R, Gray, 

 ' Birds of the West of Scotland,' p. 223. 



