102 ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES. By G. BOLAM 



Great Spotted Woodpecker. Dendrocopus major (Linn.) 



Has of late become well established in the district, but 

 a passing reference may be made to one which appeared in 

 a garden in Castle Terrace, Berwick, in February 1898. 

 On 13th October, in the same year, an immature bird, with 

 red crown, was shot on the Heugh, at Holy Island, where 

 two or three others were seen about the same time. 



When passing Kyloe Wood, in the beginning of May last, 

 I had considerable difficulty in persuading a young friend, 

 who was with me, that the loud reverberating rattle — which 

 at once arrested his attention — was, in reality, only the love- 

 call of a male Woodpecker to his mate. This noise, which 

 results from very rapid hammerings with the bill, is a peculiar 

 sound, with a certain weirdness about it, which once heard 

 is not likely to be forgotten, and which can hardly fail to 

 set one wondering how a bird is able to produce it. 



Turtle Dove. Turtur comrmmis, Selby. 



During the first week of November 1897, an adult male 

 was shot at, in the Hope Nurseries, Berwick, and, being 

 only slightly wounded, was kept alive in a cage for several 

 weeks afterwards. When I saw it, about the end of 

 November, it had become so tame that it had begun to coo 

 a little, but it did not survive the winter. 



Pallas's Sand Grouse. Syrrhaptes paradoxus (Pallas.) 



About the middle of May 1899. a bird, which, from the 

 accurate descriptions given, could have been nothing else 

 than a Sand Grouse, was seen by two different people on 

 Holy Island. This was during the stream of migration 

 which, as already noticed, took place about the 12th May, 

 and, as the bird allowed of an approach to within a few 

 yards, a mistake in identification was scarcely possible. 

 Moreover, as tending to confirm this record, it may be worth 

 while pointing out that the late Mr John Cordeaux, in The 

 Naturalist for June 1899, makes mention of a visitation of 

 Sand Grouse to the Lincolnshire Wolds, from the end of 



