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the country. They had now entirely disappeared from the Dal- 

 swinton woods, where their nests were at one time frequently 

 met with. In the neighbourhood of Palgowan there is a 

 shepherd's house known as the Lorg, situated at the head of 

 the Water of Ken, and here there is a famous breeding-place 

 of the Kaven, Buzzard, and Mountain Ouzel. A little further 

 down the Glen, on the hillside, there is a larch plantation, 

 the trees in which are of no great height but are thickly 

 studded with Heron's nests. Mr Hastings said that durinsr 

 the past year he had received more of the Terns or Sea 

 Swallows than ever before. He had received the Lesser 

 Tern, the smallest species of the genus, from Carsethorn ; 

 the Common Tern, which, although common on some parts 

 of the coast, was not so with us ; from the Solway Frith, 

 very many of the Arctic Tern ; and three specimens of the 

 Caspian Tern from the Scaur, near Dalbeattie, where they 

 had been shot last October. 



It was then agreed that a selection of the Society's 

 Proceedings and Transactions be printed for the use of the 

 Members. 



Office-bearers, Committee, and Conveners of Sections 

 were then appointed for the ensuing Session. 



FIELD MEETINGS OF 1877. 



The place chosen for the First Meeting was the farm of 

 Killochan, and accordingly, on the 5th of May, a party of 

 sixteen drove in a waggonette out to near the head of The 

 Glen. Thence, under the guidance of Mr Rutherford, 

 they were conducted down the right bank to the Glen 

 Mills, where Mr Rutherford pointed out a rock which 

 salmon were unable to surmount when ascending the stream, 

 and stated as a fact that might throw some light ol the vexed 

 question whether parrs were the young of the salmon, that 

 no parrs were ever found above that rock. Proceeding up 

 the left bank, the nxins of an old castle (or chape), or possibly 



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