SCOTTISH HERONRIES, PAST AND PRESENT 69 



FORTH. 



Information given by the Rev. William Serle and Mr. William 

 Evans causes the majority of the names in this area to be starred, 

 viz. : 



*Alloa Woods. *Loch Leven. 



*Binning Wood (abandoned for *Menteith, Lake of (?). 



Tyninghame see below). *Old Polmaise. 



*Callander. *Saltheugh. 



*Dalkeith Palace. *Siccar Point. 



* Dollar. *Yester. 



*Dunglass Dean. Tyninghame, about 20 pairs 



*Gartmorn Dam. nesting. 



*Loch Chon. 



On Mr. Evans's ("Annals," 1909, p. 116) authority there are 

 only four nesting-places now in this large central area, viz.: Blair 

 Drummond, Donibristle, Tulliallan (Brucefield), and Tyninghame, a 

 deplorable state of affairs. 



TWEED. 



*Calroust. *Marchmont, Polwarth. 



*Circle Plantation. * March Wood. 



*Clarabad Dam. *Nesbit. 



*Foulden. *Paxton. 



Mr. A. H. Evans corroborates most of the above as extinct. 



ARGYLL AND THE INNER HEBRIDES. 



Aros House, Mull (small). Mr. D. M'Donald, Tobermory. 



Burgh or Gribun (ought not to be marked as extinct). Mr. D. 



M'Donald, Tobermory. 



*(?) Islay House (near), ("Zoologist," 1872, p. 3268). No present- 

 day information. 



[lona, named in error as a nesting-place in the "Zoologist," 1872, 

 p. 3268, by a misreading of an observation in Gray's "Birds 

 of the West of Scotland."] 



Killiechronan, Mull (small). Mr. D. M'Donald, Tobermory. 

 *Rum, one nest, 1869. Gray's "Birds of the West of Scotland." 



SOLWAY. 

 *Mochrum Loch. 



In an undated " Description of the Sheriffdom of Wigtoun by 

 Sir Andrew Agnew of Lachnaw and David Dumbar of Baldoon " 

 printed in Macfarlane's " Geographical Collections Relating to Scot- 

 land," Vol. III. p. 129, 1908 (Scottish History Society), it is stated 



