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the north coast, where it breeds as far as Bangor. Has just 

 begun to penetrate to the western side of Montgomery and 

 Merioneth (H. E. Forrest, Vert. F. N. Wales, p. 304). 



Yorkshire. — It is extending northwards. " At the present 

 time its nesting area may be defined as being on the eastern 

 side of a hne passing through the centre of the county by 

 Ripon, Harrogate, Leeds and Wakefield, to Sheffield." The 

 most northerly point at which it is known to have nested 

 with certainty is Scarborough, where a nest was found in 

 June, 1900, and again at Wykeham by Mr. R. Fortune in 

 1905 (T. H. Nelson, B. of Yorks., pp. 496 and 497). 



Scotland. — Shetlands. — One at Lerwick on December 

 4th, 1905 {Ann. S.N.H., 1906, p. 199). One on May 28th, 

 and a good many in the second and third weeks of June, 1902, 

 were seen at Dunrossness (^.c, 1903, p. 153). Caithness. — 

 One on June 23rd at Barriedale {t.c, 1900, p. 83). Argyll. — 

 One seen on August 29th, 1900, at Dhuheartach {t.c, 1901, 

 p. 139). Outer Hebrides. — One was shot on the Flannan 

 Isles on September 14th, 1900 {t.c, 1901, p. 139). A young 

 bird appeared at Eoligary on August 18th, 1901, and was 

 caught on September 29th. Another older bird appeared on 

 September 25th (J. A. Harvie-Brow^n, t.c, 1902, p. 215). 

 N.W. Highlands and Skye. — Only an occasional visitant 

 {id., Fauna N.W. Highlands and Skye, p. 263). 



Isle of Man. — A rare straggler (P. Ralfe, B. of Isle of Man, 

 p. 183). 



Ireland. — A female was shot on May 24th, 1904, near 

 Hillsborough, co. Down. It had eggs in the ovary, and 

 showed no trace of having been in captivity (N. H. Foster, 

 Irish Nat., 1904, p. 155). Messrs. Ussher and Warren record 

 thirty- three occurrences in May and twenty in June, on 

 migration {B. of Ireland, p. 227), so that Mr. Foster's record 

 cannot be taken as an addition to the breeding records in 

 Ireland, which are only two of many years ago. 



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

 S. page 488. 



1899. — From the last week of January to March 23rd, 

 a flock of thirty or so was seen on the north wolds of Lincoln- 

 shire in the same field in which they appeared in 1888. A 

 single bird was seen in the same district on May 19th, and a 

 small flight was observed in the Spurn district (Yorkshire) 

 on May 13th (J. Cordeaux, Ibis, 1899, p. 472). 



1904. — A flock of eighteen was observed in the second week 

 of February flying northward over Millington, Yorkshire 

 (T. H. Nelson, B. of Yorks., p. 503). 



