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ings (vol. ii., p. 334). The last-named gentleman there states, 

 that all of the birds in the list were obtained or preserved by 

 Dr Sinclair, with a few exceptions noted, among which the 

 stockdove does not appear ; but as no date, locality, or other 

 particulars are given, beyond the words, "very rare," placed 

 after the name in the list, this occurrence must be, at the least, 

 considered very doubtful. The only other recorded instance 

 is to be found in Mr Gray's " Birds of the West of Scotland," 

 where, after also throwing an air of doubt around the Caith- 

 ness specimen, the author mentions — on the authority of Mr 

 W. Reid of Pultneytown, Wick, who had seen the bird — that 

 one was shot at Deerness in Orkney, on 12th October 1861. 

 The above are the only two records which I have been able to 

 find of the occurrence of this bird in Scotland, while both 

 M'Gillivray and Yarrell state that it is not found there. 



The two instances which I have now to record are both 

 quite recent, and have taken place in the same locality, viz., 

 in the Culross, or southern district of Perthshire, a detached 

 and purely lowland portion of that country. The first was 

 shot at Tulliallan, in the parish of the same name, by Mr 

 Millar, gamekeeper there, on the 27th of last month, and the 

 other, which is the bird now before you, was shot on my pro- 

 perty of Westgrange, in the parish of Culross, by Mr John 

 Livingstone, gamekeeper. The former has, I believe, been 

 presented to the Museum of the Alloa Society of Natural 

 Science. In both cases, these birds were shot when feeding 

 on newly sown grain fields in company with woodpigeons, 

 and as the localities are very near each other, it is possible 

 that they may have been a mated pair. I have not ascer- 

 tained the sex of the Tulliallan specimen. That now before 

 you is a male. From the slight resemblance which the bird 

 bears at first sight to a young wood pigeon, it is quite possible 

 that it may have occurred more frequently in Scotland without 

 being observed, and, as I understand, that its range is extend- 

 ing northwards, it having, according to Mr Dresser, been found 

 breeding in Northumberland, it may perhaps be looked for as 

 a casual visitor more often in future. 



The stockdove, like many of the pigeons, being a bird of at 

 least partially migratory habits, is in Dorset and some of the 



