. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . ers, Mamml of British Birds, 1889. PALLASS SAND GEOUSE. 157 various plants, such as spurrey {Spergula arvensis), knot-grass (Arrhenatherum avenaceicm), clover, chick weed (Stellariamedia), dock (Eumex), and the like. Its flight is rapid, and resembles that of the GoldenPlover. Great numbers visited the British Islands in May1863, when several flocks were observed in East-Lothian;but by the following winter and spring
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . ers, Mamml of British Birds, 1889. PALLASS SAND GEOUSE. 157 various plants, such as spurrey {Spergula arvensis), knot-grass (Arrhenatherum avenaceicm), clover, chick weed (Stellariamedia), dock (Eumex), and the like. Its flight is rapid, and resembles that of the GoldenPlover. Great numbers visited the British Islands in May1863, when several flocks were observed in East-Lothian;but by the following winter and spring the bird had dis-appeared from England as well as from Scotland. Little further was heard of the Sand Grouse in thiscountry until May 1888, when it was again seen in nearlyevery part of the kingdom. Professor Newton records that it bred on the CulbinSands, Morayshire, in August 1889.^ An Act of Parliament was passed on the 24 th ofDecember 1888 for its protection from the 1st of February1889 to the 1st of June 1892, with the view of the birdbecoming acclimatised, but it has now (February 1892)quite disappeared from Great Britain. 1 Ibis sixth series, vol. ii. pp. CALLING. ( 158 ) TETRAONID^. THE BLACK GROUSE. BLACK-GAME, BLACK-COCK THE MALE; GREY HEN THE FEMALE. Tetrao ^z Black^CocU, %\)z (15rep l^en* Tke livelong day Lord Marmion rode :The mountain path the Palmer showd,By glen and streamlet winded still,Where stunted birdies hid the not choose the lowland road,For the Merse forayers were abroad,Who, fired with hate and thirst of scarcely failed to bar their on the trampling band, from crownOf some tall cliff, the deer looked down ;On wing of jet, from his reposeIn the deep heath, the Black-Cock rose. Scott, Marmion. Although the great extension of cultivation during the lasthundred years and the enclosing and draining of manyparts of the moors and boggy grounds of the county haveconsiderably reduced the area suitable for Bla
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