Thropton on the coast of Northumberland on May 21; 
after this date the records come thick and fast from 
England, Scotland, and Ireland till about midsummer, 
and continue through the following months till 
November 28, when a specimen was killed near War- 
rington. 
I do not refer to the vast number of continental 
occurrences recorded by Professor Newton, but may 
state with regard to the British Islands that the Sand- 
Grouse in 1868 reached Unst, in Shetland, to . the 
north, Eastbourne, Slapton, and Scilly to the south, 
and Navan, co. Donegal, to the west. The editor of 
the 4th edition of Yarrell’s ‘British Birds,’ vol. ii. 
p- 35, states that a few individuals lingered in the Wild 
West through the autumn and winter; but that even 
there, by February 1864 the last of the invaders of 
1863 had succumbed. 
We do not hear of this species in our country again 
till 1872, when, according to the authority last quoted, 
a few were reported from Northumberland and Ayr- 
shire in May and June, and in October 1876 two were 
shot near Kilcock, co Wexford. Of the great imvasion 
of 1858 my readers are no doubt well aware, and as 
we are hoping for full details concerning it from the 
same able pen that described that of 1863, I will only 
say that it far exceeded the first in numbers, and that 
in at least two well-authenticated instances young birds 
were hatched out by their parents under natural con- 
ditions in Scotland (cf. ‘ Ibis,’ April 1890, pp. 207- 
214, pl. vii). 
For details of the habits of this singular bird in its 
