nent. The most eastern, and also the most northern I
locality of which there is any record, as regards this I
migration, is Archangel; a specimen in the Museum,of I
that town being ^corded by M e s ^ Alston and Baryie-
Brown ,* another--being in a private collection there; I
and a specimen was also obtained, at Moscow.f The
Earliest'date that can be given with precis:L°n isi the 6th I
Of May,: at Skolonitz, in Moravia. By the 21st of May
Heligoland wit reached, and the same day the first British I
examples of that year, two malts and one: female, were shot
out of a flock of fourteen, at Thropton, in Northumberland.
The next day birds had reached Eccleshall,-1 Staffordshire,
Where two: were shot' out of a flock of about twenty g and
from that date onwards the records become numerous It is I
dnnece'ssary to recapitulate-the exaet localities and details of
each c a p t u r e , ' so'carefully-worked -out.by Professor ^Newton
ahd Mr, Stevenson:; and it will be-sufficient to say-that m
Norfolk and Suffolk - seventy-five' birds were ^obtained a
number far exceeding ^ o b ta in e d in any equal area. Ihe
most' interesting of these instances was-that of a shghtiy j
wounded bird which"was taken alive near Elveden, ■ and^sent
by Professor Newton to the- London Zoological' Gardens,
m m m lived for^sbfe time. In Lincolnshire- severa
•wore-obtained in^May^ and earlyMn -December
twenty were shot out of a flock numbering between forty
and fiftyV many morel howivorpare believed to have been
oaten of destroyed in ignorance o f-th e ir r a r i t y . I n
-Yorkshire about-twenty-fou>. examples-wera killed; and ini
Durham and Northumberland about j twenty-six. ^ Onrthe 1
eastern side of &&tbnd;*>ird» were .obtained: m Hn,ddmg-|
%okshire, where,bfesid^s’Hh^ slaio,one vras kepi-alive* by J
Lord Haddington-^ in Eorfarshire, seven mr. eight examples ;j
in -Perthshire, Kincardine, ^berdeen^Eigin, Caithness,--and!
Sutherland; OV^bmWflrig the northernmost oL th eB h et|
-lands, an example was obtained on 4th Novembenvout^j
a small flock; and one also onirBenbeci^a, m the 0ntei|
* lb is , 1873, p , - f ‘Dresser, B i r d sVfburopefvifip.^77^
■ d Cordeaux,' Birds'of -the Humber Di’stnGtj'p.dJO^*'
Hebrides,* on October 18th. In the south, before, the end,of
June, Sand-grouse had visited the flat shores of Essex, Ken%
and Sussex; the sands of Slapton, in South Devon; the
Land’s End, and St. Agnes, Soilly Islands. At Heanton, in
North Devon, a survivor was obtained in December; and at
Haverfordwest, in Pembrokeshire, another, which was seen
in the flesh by the late Mr. Gould, was obtained 8th February,
1864 ; the latest date for these islands. Eccleshall,
in Staffordshire; Oswestry; :the sandy coasts of Cheshire-
and Lancashire ; Penrith, in Cumberland, were visited; and
then, after a considerable interval, Sand-grouse turned up
again in Renfrewshire and Stirling. Inland they occurred
in various localities ; on the flats of Cambridgeshire,, the
sandy heaths of Aldershot, and eyen so near the metropolis
as Barnet. In Ireland examples were killed at Ross; and
at Drumbeg and Naran, both in co. Donegal; the latter
being the most western locality oh record. Judging* from
the materials available, it would appear that a large majority
were obtained from May 21st;.dnwards to the end of June,
by which rime the awakened and widely-spread interest in
the new visitants, taking its usual forms of - persecution and
extermination, had done its worst. Some may have-sought
refuge on the continent, which they had left; * hut, at all
events, by the middle of November-they had disappeared
from the favoured counties of Norfolk and Suffolk. In the
remote and scantily peopled districts of the.-wild. West, a
few individuals lingered throughout the autumn and winter ;
hut even there, by February 1864, the last-of the invaders
of 1863 had succumbed.
The birds which arrived on our shores formed, however*
but a portion of a far larger eastern - horde, the. main body
of which, in all probability, never reached the British Islands.
The meagre information as to their occurrence in Russia has
already been given. From Galiciajin^thb 6th'of-May, the
Sand-grouse pressed onwards to Pesth, Yienna, and other
Austrian localities; the outlying wing of the army sending
forth its stragglers as far south as Rimini, on the Adriatic4
* R. Gray, Birds ©f>Hie West of Scotland, p. -233,