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Oatehouse — Lackentyre Mine — Malachite, Towanite, Pitchy 

 Copper Ore, Ghrysocolla, GaUiaa, Anglesite, 

 Cerussite,Pyr<mwrphite, Wulfenite, Vanadinite, 

 (?) Blende. 



Auehencairn — Balcary Mine — Suljohate of Barytes, Towa- 

 nite, Malachite, fibrous, Tetrahedrite. 



Note of Kake Birds that have occurred in Dumfries- 

 shire AND Galloway during the past year. 



Two specimens of Capercailzie were shot, the one at 

 Auehencairn, the other near Newton-Stewart — they were 

 both females and most probably had strayed from Ayrshire. 



Hoopoe (upupa epops). A specimen was shot near 

 Hitae, in the parish of Lochmaben ; another specimen was 

 shot by Mr M'Quae, gamekeeper at Munches, near that place. 



Turtle Dove (Turtur auritus) was shot at Lochrutton 

 gate, Dumfriesshire, in June 1870. This bird comes very 

 rarely into Scotland. A specimen was shot in the garden at 

 Jardine-hall in 1814 or 1815, and it has occurred as far north 

 as Aberdeenshire, 



The black or white spotted Woodpecker (picus) has beert 

 shot several times, both at Munches Kirkcudbrightshire, 

 and at Kinmeunt Dumfriesshire, within the last two years. 



Notes on Birds and their Habits, as observed at 



ASHBANK, MaXWELLTOWN. By T, CORRIE. 



As was said by Mr Aird in the introduction to his pleas- 

 ant paper recorded in our Transactions published in 1866, 

 " I am not a naturalist in the usual sense of the term," but, 

 like him, I take a warm interest in the living things by 



