72 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



SCOTTISH HERONRIES AND A CENSUS 



OF HERONS. 



By HUGH BOYD WATT, M.B.O.U. 



THE full and careful account of Heronries in the " Dee " 

 area by Mr. A. Landsborough Thomson in the last 

 number of the " Annals " (pp. 7-9), enables another extensive 

 district to be added to those which have been reported upon, 

 in detail, within recent years. Those districts, and the 

 works containing statistical and other information on the 

 Heronries within their bounds, are as follows (in chrono- 

 logical order) : 



1. BERWICKSHIRE AND THE BORDERS. See 'Herons and Border 



Heronries,' by James Smail (" Hist. Ber. Nat. Club," vol. x. 

 PP- 33-4. I 8S5); and the "Birds of Berwickshire," vol. ii. 

 1895, by George Muirhead. 



2. " CLYDE " AREA. See ' Heronries, Past and Present, in the Clyde 



Faunal Area,' by Hugh Boyd Watt ("Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc., 

 Glas.," vol. v. (new series, 1900), pp. 378-90. 



3. "FORTH" AREA. See 'Heronries in Forth,' by William 



Evans' ("Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.," 1909, p. 116). A brief note 

 only. 



4. DUMFRIESSHIRE. See the "Birds of Dumfriesshire," 1910, pp. 



228-30, by Hugh S. Gladstone (ut infra}. 



5. " DEE " AREA. See ' Heronries in Dee, etc.,' by A. Lands- 



borough Thomson ("Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.," 1911, pp. 7-9). 



For additional information see under "Clyde," "Forth," and 

 " Dee " below. 



If a bibliography of Scottish Heronries was being attempted 

 many other items would be included ; but it may be remarked here 

 that the principal works of a more general scope were mentioned in 

 the introduction to iny first list ("Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist." 1908, p. 

 219), not omitting the important publications named in the editorial 

 comments in the current " Annals " (p. 9). It seems incredible that 

 Mr. Harvie-Brown's works can be unknown to any one interested 

 in the history of Scottish birds. 



Since my last communication ("Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.," 1910, 

 pp. 68-70) further information has been gathered, which is now 

 appended in the form of a 



