128 RARE VISITANTS. 



Order III. RASORES. 



Fam. COLUMBIDiE. 



PASSENGEE PIGEON. Columba migratoria, Lin- 

 naeus. 



Hab. North America to High Central Plains. 



One, Monymeal, Fifeshire, 31st Dec. 1825 : Fleming, Hist. 

 Brit. An. p. 145. 



One near Royston, Hertfordshire, July 1844 : Yarrell, Hist. 

 Brit. Birds, vol. ii. p. 317. 



One seen near Tring, Hertfordshire : Yarrell, op. cit. 



One near Mellerstain, Berwickshire, shot by Lord Hadding- 

 ton : Turnbull, Birds of East Lothian, p. 41 *. 



Fam. PTEEOCLIDtE. 



PALLAS'S SANDGEOIJSE. S^rrhaptes paradoxus (Pal- 

 las). 



Hab. Astracan, Thirkestan, and particularly the Kirghiz 

 Steppes. 



First included in the British list by Mr. T. J. Moore 

 (Zoologist, 1859, p. 6728 ; Ibis, 1860, p. 105) from a 

 specimen obtained at Tremadoc, North Wales, on the 

 9th July, 1859f . It was in company with two others 



* A gentleman in Berwickshire, however, had turned out several 

 Paasenger Pigeons, shortly before the Mellerstein specimen was 

 shot (Turnbull, I. c). 



t A specim^i in the Lynn Museum was also procured in July, 

 1859, at Walpole, St. Peters, Norfolk (Kev. F. L. Currie, Ibis, 1859, 

 p. 472 ; Stevenson, Birds of Norfolk, vol. i. p. 337). 



