﻿BIRDS. 
  

  

  Saturday 
  previous 
  — 
  the 
  19th 
  — 
  'shot 
  one 
  which 
  we 
  had 
  observed 
  

   for 
  three 
  days 
  before 
  then, 
  flying 
  about 
  with 
  a 
  flock 
  of 
  Lapwings 
  

   on 
  the 
  sea-beach.' 
  We 
  saw 
  the 
  bird 
  in 
  Macleay's, 
  where 
  it 
  had 
  

   been 
  set 
  up 
  for 
  the 
  Dunrobin 
  Museum. 
  

  

  Others 
  appear 
  in 
  Macleay's 
  ledgers 
  as 
  having 
  been 
  shot 
  at 
  

   Kingillie, 
  near 
  Beauly, 
  in 
  1853, 
  and 
  at 
  Fort 
  Augustus 
  in 
  July 
  1884. 
  

   In 
  the 
  Field 
  of 
  January 
  16th, 
  1886, 
  there 
  is 
  a 
  note 
  of 
  one 
  shot 
  near 
  

   Elgin 
  on 
  November 
  6th, 
  1885, 
  and 
  the 
  writer 
  — 
  Mr. 
  A. 
  Dunbar 
  — 
  

   says 
  this 
  is 
  the 
  third 
  specimen 
  in 
  that 
  country 
  during 
  the 
  last 
  six 
  

   years. 
  Another 
  was 
  in 
  company 
  with 
  the 
  one 
  shot. 
  

  

  0. 
  A. 
  J. 
  Lee 
  in 
  a 
  letter 
  to 
  us 
  says 
  that 
  Mr. 
  Stirling 
  of 
  Garden 
  

   saw 
  a 
  Turtle 
  Dove 
  in 
  a 
  wood 
  of 
  alders 
  near 
  the 
  Findhorn 
  on 
  the 
  

   17th 
  September 
  1887. 
  

  

  St. 
  John 
  mentions 
  seeing 
  a 
  pair 
  daily 
  for 
  a 
  short 
  time, 
  probably 
  

   near 
  Forres, 
  and 
  we 
  have 
  a 
  note 
  of 
  one 
  killed 
  about 
  there 
  in 
  1844. 
  

   Another 
  was 
  killed 
  at 
  Waulkmill, 
  near 
  Elgin, 
  in 
  October 
  1858. 
  

  

  Mr. 
  J 
  ohn 
  Gatherer, 
  of 
  the 
  Elgin 
  Museum, 
  having 
  sent 
  us 
  notice 
  

   of 
  a 
  veritable 
  Turtle 
  Dove 
  (T. 
  communis, 
  Selby), 
  we 
  pressed 
  for 
  

   a 
  further 
  identification, 
  and 
  Mr. 
  Gatherer, 
  having 
  again 
  inspected 
  

   the 
  bird, 
  assured 
  us 
  of 
  its 
  identity. 
  It 
  is 
  an 
  adult 
  male, 
  and 
  agrees 
  

   in 
  every 
  particular 
  with 
  those 
  given 
  in 
  the 
  latest 
  edition 
  of 
  

   Yarrell. 
  

  

  Edward 
  says 
  : 
  — 
  Three 
  or 
  four 
  specimens 
  are 
  recorded 
  as 
  obtained, 
  

   but 
  one 
  so 
  labelled 
  in 
  the 
  Museum 
  is 
  an 
  Egyptian 
  Turtle 
  Dove, 
  or 
  

   escaped 
  bird, 
  like 
  so 
  large 
  a 
  proportion 
  of 
  Scottish 
  records 
  of 
  Turtle 
  

   Doves. 
  

  

  Order 
  PTEROCLETES. 
  

   Family 
  PTEROCLiaffi. 
  

  

  rrhaptes 
  paradoxus 
  (Pall). 
  Pallas' 
  Sand 
  Grouse. 
  

  

  The 
  first 
  invasion 
  of 
  this 
  far-eastern 
  species 
  in 
  1863 
  has 
  been 
  duly 
  

   chronicled 
  in 
  the 
  pages 
  of 
  the 
  Ibis 
  (1864, 
  p. 
  185 
  et 
  seq.) 
  by 
  Professor 
  

   Newton. 
  By 
  that 
  account 
  three 
  birds 
  were 
  procured 
  and 
  a 
  flock 
  

   seen 
  at 
  Brora 
  in 
  our 
  present 
  area. 
  One 
  was 
  shot 
  by 
  the 
  Duke 
  of 
  

   Richmond 
  at 
  Gordon 
  Castle 
  on 
  October 
  1 
  6 
  ; 
  a 
  male, 
  struck 
  down 
  

   by 
  a 
  hawk 
  at 
  Lossiemouth, 
  no 
  date 
  given 
  ; 
  the 
  third 
  was 
  shot 
  at 
  

  

  