24. SUPPLEMENT TO 
Turtle Dove (p. 256). 
While beating the low bushes by the boundary fence of Braunton 
Burrows for moths one day in July 1892, Mr. G. F. Mathew disturbed a 
Turtle Dove from her nest which contained eggs, and saw about four 
pairs of these little Doves on the Burrows that day. Flocks of Turtle 
Doves were seen on the borders of Dartmoor in August 1894 (‘ Field, 
Sept. Ist, 1894), 
Red-legged Partridge (p. 265). 
A hen bird was seen to drop into the water when flying across the 
Exe Estuary from the Starcross side towards Exmouth, April 16th, 1892. 
She was picked up by a man in a boat, and taken to Mr. Seward, bird- 
stuffer in Exmouth, who found that there were 30 well-developed eggs in 
the ovarium. The cock bird was afterwards seen about the Exmouth 
Docks, 
Quail (p. 269). 
The year 1892 was a good ‘Quail year”; nests were found in various 
parts of the county, and the birds were plentiful in the summer and 
autumn. (Zool. 1892, p. 427.) Some Quail were seen round Kings- 
bridge throughout the summer of 1893, and three broods were known to 
have been hatched out ; one at Sutton, in South Milton parish; another 
in Loddiswell Parish; and the third in East Allington; while birds were 
shot (more than a dozen in all) in South Milton, Stokenham, and West 
Allington in the following September, and some remained up to October. 
(HE, A. 8. E.) 
Black Grouse (p. 272). 
On May 4th, 1889, Mr. W. V. Toll saw a Black Cock and two Grey 
Hens on the sands in front of his house at Strete, near Slapton Ley. In 
August 1894 three broods of Black Game (including old ones it was 
reckoned there must have been two dozen) were seen on the Moors 
between High-Hampton and Halwill. (C. F, Glinn, in litt.) 
Corn-Crake (p. 280). 
(Additional local names :—Barley Drake, Barley Hen.) 
Little Bustard (p. 293). 
Three were seen on Braunton Burrows in November 1893. 
