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wicksbire; in wliicli county the Earl of Haddington states 

 one was shot by his father at Mellerstain in the autumn of 

 1865, and another seen by himself about the same time near 

 Earlston, as recorded in Gray's "Birds of the West of Scotland." 



XIV. Notes on the Occurrence of the Stock Dove and White 

 Wagtail in Past Lothian. By William Evans, Esq. 



[Abstract.] 



Stock Dove (Columha mnas). — At the monthly meeting of 

 the Society held on 17th March 1886, Mr Evans exhibited 

 a specimen of the stock dove, obtained near Longniddry on 

 the 6th of January 1886. When shot it was feeding in a 

 wood, in company with a number of ring doves, on Indian 

 corn, which had been placed there for the pheasants. On 

 dissection it proved to be a male. The Society's Proceedings 

 contain several valuable communications on the appearance 

 and spread of the species in Scotland, and the interest 

 attaching to the present specimen lies in the fact of its being 

 the first recorded from East Lothian, or, indeed, from any of 

 the three Lothians.^ A second specimen — a male — was 

 subsequently netted, along with a number of ring doves, in 

 the same locality on 5th March 1886. 



White Wagtail {Motacilla alba). — At the meeting held 

 on 21st April 1886, Mr Evans exhibited a specimen — a 

 male — of the true Motacilla alba, the continental form of 

 our common Motacilla yarrelli, or pied wagtail, obtained near 

 Dunbar on 23d May 1885. He had found the species or 

 form in some numbers in two or three localities in East 

 Lothian during April and May 1885, and they had again 

 appeared in 1886 ; so that he had no doubt they paid the 

 district a visit every spring, on their migration to northern 

 Europe, a fact of great interest when we consider how little 

 has hitherto been recorded of the form as a British bird. 



Dr T. Anderson, Selkirk, which he had obtained the previous day on a rough 

 pasture on the farm of Eamscleuch, Teviothead, Roxburghshire. — W. E. 



^ The species has since occurred in Midlothian, a female having been shot 

 near Dalkeith on 4th June 1886 ; and a third East Lothian specimen — a young 

 bird— was obtained on 3d September 1886,— W. E. 



