2i8 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Algerian form (D. m. numidus) in which a red breast-crescent 

 is normally present. 



Besides the examples mentioned above, I have seen an 

 adult female also assignable to the English race (wing 132 

 mm.), which was killed in December 1907, in a wood a few 

 miles from Dunbar, where the species is known to breed. 



Another adult female, shot in the west of Berwickshire 

 about the beginning of March 1906, is a larger bird, with a 

 stouter bill and a longer wing (144 mm. = 5.6 inches.) Dr. 

 Hartert, to whom I have shown the specimen, pronounces it 

 to be a " most typical Swedish bird," and I take it, therefore, 

 to have been a winter visitor from Scandinavia. So, doubt- 

 less, were also two specimens in the Perth Museum, of which 

 Mr. A. M. Rodger has kindly given me the following par- 

 ticulars : Ad. c?, Dron, I2th October 1891, wing 5-| 

 inches. $ ?, imt., near Arbroath, I2th November 1892, 

 wing also 5-| inches. 



The Greater Spotted Woodpecker is now, as has been 

 said, thoroughly established as a breeding species in south- 

 east Scotland. Since 1887, when the first brood was 

 detected in Duns Castle woods, many instances of its nesting 

 there and in other parts of the country have been observed. 

 I have myself seen several occupied nesting-holes in the 

 Tweed and Forth areas, and at the present time I am aware 

 of six localities in East-Lothian and three in Mid-Lothian 

 in which it breeds. 



A LIST OF SCOTTISH HERONRIES, PAST AND 



PRESENT. 



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



INTRODUCTION. 



THE annexed list is based upon material which has been 

 collected by the writer towards a history of Scottish 

 Heronries. The list is compiled upon inclusive principles ; 

 places where only one or two nests have been recorded 

 are taken into count, but no locality is given without 



