104 WAITE: VERTEBRATES OF THE WESTERN AINSTY. 
stuffed.’ An example was obtained on the Nidd by Mr. Proude 
about 1850; and a female was shot at Grimston near Tad- 
caster, Nov. roth, 1879. 
Columba palumbus Linn. Ring Dove. Wood Pigeon. 
Generally spoken of as Stock Dove. Resident, and very 
abundant ; it is rapidly increasing in numbers, and breeds in all 
suitable places within the district. 
An example which I obtained at Thorp Arch on Dec. 2nd, 
1890, was feeding on a whitethorn hedge along with. many 
others, its crop contained :—30 acorns, 151 haws, me 16 grains 
of barley. 
Columba cenas Linn. Stock Dove. Local names, Rock 
Pigeon or Blue Rock. Resident and very common, but local ; 
breeds regularly in the district wherever suitable nesting-places 
exist, as in the farm-buildings at Bilton, Wilstrop, etc.; but 
more abundantly at ‘Jackdaw Crag’ and the limestone cliff on 
the opposite side of the Wharfe. 
Turtur communis Selby. Turtle Dove. Summer visitant. 
Has occasionally occurred. One year a pair frequented Wilstrop 
Wood throughout the summer, and Mr. John Harrison thinks 
they bred, but the nest was not found. ‘An example was shot 
at Wetherby on roth July, 1879’ (Milligan, MS.). They have 
been seen on several occasions at Scarthingwell, a few miles 
south of Tadcaster. 
Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Pall.).Pallas’ss Sand-Grouse. 
r. John Harrison tells me to include this bird in my list, as he 
saw five together in one of his fields at Wilstrop during the 
recent iruption (1888). 
— “hie (Lath.). Red Grouse. This moorland bird 
seen in the district except during particularly severe 
wey Gad hard weather. One was seen at Newton 
Kyme in winter 1856, and during the severe snow-storms which 
prevailed in the oe part of 1886, when grouse perished in all 
parts of the county, single examples were obtained at Marston 
Moor, Walton, Cowthorpe,and Wetherby (Chaloner, ‘ Naturalist,’ 
1886, p. 68). The long-continued frost of the present winter 
has driven the grouse again into the lowlands, but not into the 
Ainsty district. 
Phasianus colchicus (Linn.). Pheasant. Resident, common, 
might be more so but for the fox, which is regarded as of more 
importance in this hunting district. 
Naturalist, 
