300 APPENDIX. 



Phalacrocorax carbo (L). Cormorant 



Mr. Ranken informs us that an albino specimen of the Cormorant 

 was obtained in Sanday at the end of February or beginning 

 of March 1891. 



Chenalopex aegyptiaca (Gmel). Egyptian Goose. 



In reference to the Egyptian Goose mentioned in the text as 

 having been killed in the Orkneys, Mr. Moodie-Heddle tells us 

 that the following note was found in a copy of Yarrell (3d vol. 

 p. 175), belonging to his father: "Two at North Berwick, 

 1842, of which I have one." And this note is signed by his 

 father. 



Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Pall.). Pallas' Sand Grouse. 



Three Sand Grouse were seen in Shapinsay in 1888, and dead ones 

 were picked up both in that island and in Swona. In Stronsay 

 a male was shot on the farm of Housbay, and is now stuffed 

 and in the possession of Mr. Learmonth there. Sand Grouse 

 were also seen in Auskerry by Mr. MacAlister, the keeper of 

 the lighthouse. 



Perdix cinerea, Lath. Partridge, 



We have to record another addition to the list of failures in 

 trying to acclimatise this bird in Orkney. Some few years ago, 

 Mr. Warne informs us, Col. Horwood turned down some 

 Partridges on his estate in Sanday, which island seems well 

 adapted to the requirements of the birds, but they never throve, 

 if they ever bred there, and now they have all disappeared. 



XEgialitis hiaticula (L.). Ringed Plover. 



Messrs. Harvie-Brown and Eagle Clarke particularly noticed the 

 very large size of the Orcadian Kinged Plover during a visit to 

 the islands in 1890. 



