TURTLE DOVE—PALLAS'S SAND-GROUSE. 253 
Genus— 
IM. Tti7^tur comnmnis. Turtle Dove. 
A common summer visitor to all parts of the county 
and Isle of Wight. 
It arrives in May and departs in September or the 
beginning of October. 
If attracted by any quantity of food it sometimes 
associates in small flocks. 
We have known instances of three eggs being laid in 
one nest. 
From the Needles Lighthouse we have notes of one 
killed at 2 a.m. on May ist, 1902 ; and another on the 6th 
of the same month, at 4 a.m. ; and one caught at 2 a.m. on 
August 30th. 
Order— PTEROCLETES. 
Y hmiN—PteroclidcB. 
G¥.^\]S—Syrrhapies. 
195. Syrrhaptes paradoxus, Pallas's Sand-Grouse. 
A very rare accidental visitor. 
Remarkable numbers of this species visited Britain in 
the years 1859, 1863, 1872, 1876, and 1888, but only two 
of these immigrations appear to have invaded Hampshire. 
Specimens were obtained at Aldershot in 1863 (Rev. 
M. A. Mathew).! 
In 1888 they occurred in all parts of the county, in- 
Zoologist." 1863. 
