ON THE GREAT CRESTED GREBE 71 



Ayrshire. A pair nested at Kilbirnie Loch in 191 2, and since 

 then a pair has frequented the loch each summer, but the place is 

 too accessible to the public for the Grebes to nest successfully. 



Dumbartonshire. It is reported to breed on at least one of the 

 reservoirs on the Kilpatrick Hills. 



S.W. Stirlingshire. Under date of 3rd March 1919, Mr James 

 Bartholomew of Glenorchard writes : " Mr J. A. Anderson, Bar- 

 dowie Castle, tells me that a pair nested at Bardowie Loch for the first 

 time in 1913 or 1914. Since then there have been two pairs nesting. 

 Mr T. Ripley Ker of Dougalston tells me that there was a pair of 

 Great Crested Grebes nested about eight years ago on Loch Ardin- 

 ning, near Strathblane, but they have not nested there since." It 

 also nests on Craigallian Loch and Carbeth Loch, near Strathblane. 



For the above unpublished data we are indebted to Mr John 

 Robertson, who has taken much trouble to help us, and to whom we 

 are more than grateful. 



Mr Charles Kirk, in 191 7, writes that Great Crested Grebes are 

 nesting at several places within six miles of Glasgow. 



SOLWAY. 



The Great Crested Grebe does not seem to be as widely dis- 

 tributed as a breeding species in Solway as would be expected. We 

 have records of only three colonies, which we give below : 



Dumfriesshire. The only breeding records for the county hail 

 from the vicinity of Lochmaben, where Mr George Johnstone saw 

 a young bird with its parent on the Castle Loch in the summer of 

 1 89 1. The species has increased summer by summer since 1903 or 

 1904, until in 1910 it was comparatively numerous. In 1905 a 

 brood was successfully reared on the Mill Loch. 



Wigtmvnshire. In 1896 Great Crested Grebes bred for the first 

 time on the White Loch of Myrton. On the 7th of June 1894 

 Mr John Robertson saw an adult Great Crested Grebe sailing about 

 on the loch {in litt.), while Sir Herbert Maxwell writes {A.S.JV.N., 

 1897, p. 19): "On the 7th November in the same year (1894) 

 I detected for the first time a solitary immature specimen of this 

 bird on the White Loch ; it remained till the great frost drove it 

 away, but it returned in spring and remained all the following 

 summer and mild winter of 1896, still alone. However, during my 

 absence in spring it must have secured a mate, for now there are 

 three or four young ones disporting themselves with their parents." 

 The only other Solway record is from the Castle Loch, Mochrum, 

 in 1911. 



