"The Birds of Dumfriesshire." 13 



Addenda and Corrigenda to the " Birds of Dumfriesshire." 

 By Hugh S. Gladstone, M.A., F.R.S.E., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



Since the publication of my book on The Birds of Dumfries- 

 shire in June, 1910, I have received a good deal of additional 

 information on the subject. I have also become aware of several 

 errors which I now propose to correct, though I shall not point 

 out corrections in spelling or punctuation, except where Such are 

 important. The page references throughout are to The Birds of 

 Dumfriesshire. 



Going through the book seriatim there are the following 

 remarks to be made on the section dealing with 



THE ORNITHOLOGISTS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 



William MacGillivray's name should be spelt with a capital 

 G (p. XXV.) : a rule not generally followed, but which I have ascer- 

 tained to be correct by the recent perusal of .some of his auto- 

 graph letters : letters not only rare but beautiful on account of 

 their caligraphy. 



The epitaph on Dr. George Archbald's tombstone in St. 

 Michael's Churchyard, Dumfries, runs Clarus in arte fuit medica, 

 and so on. In my book the word medica appears emdica, which 

 is nonsense, (p. xxvii.) 



Since the publication of my book I have learnt that I, and 

 others, have been wrong in describing Dr. John Stevenson 

 Bushnan as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He 

 wrote Vol. XXVII., published in 1840 (not Vol. II.), of the first 

 edition of Jardine's Naturalist's Library, (p. xxviii.) 



It was in 1830 that William Thomas Carruthers of Dormont 

 sent Sir William Jardine a small collection of birds from Madeira. 

 (p. xxix.) 



William Hastings, the taxidermist, is described as being " in 

 a good way of business from 1860-1885." (p. xxxi.) He, how- 

 ever, in a paper read to the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural 

 History and Antiquarian Society on January 6th, 1863, states that 

 he had then been a preserver of birds for thirty years. 



Sir William Jardine's collection of birds, nine thousand 

 skins in all, sold by Messrs Puttick & Simpson on June 17th, 

 1886, realised £358. His collection of British birds, which he 

 had sold ten years previously to the Edinburgh Museum, com- 

 prised four hundred and thirty-two specimens, (p. xxxiii.) 



