18 Addenda and Corrigenda. 



Although corn crops were somewhat light, the year on the whole 

 was not unfavourable to agriculturists. On thirteen days upwards 

 of one inch of rain fell in the twenty-four hours, an unprecedented 

 record. The coldest month of the year was November — mean 

 temperature nearly six degrees below the fifty years average. 



Records for this year (1911) are not yet due; but the 

 drought and heat of the past summer is not likely to be soon 

 forgotten, and I believe that such a period has not been experi- 

 enced since 1826, though as early harvests were carried in 1893 

 and 1899 in the parish of Langholm. 



When writing of our 



" FLIGHT - NETS " 



I have quoted (p. Ixxxv.) H. A. Macpherson's statement, 

 from p. 466 of his History of Fowling, where he says Irving 

 Murray was " a Crimean veteran." This, I have since learnt, is 

 not the case ; though Murray may have been engaged in trans- 

 porting troops to the Black Sea during the war. He had often 

 been in Constantinople, and knew the eastern Mediterranean well. 



The section entitled 



PROTECTION 



is rendered out of date by the Wild Birds Protection (County of 

 Dumfries) Order, 1911, which is here appended: — 



THE WILD BIRDS PROTECTION (COUNTY OF 

 DUMFRIES) ORDER, 1911. 



Whereas the WILD BIRDS PROTECTION (COUNTY OF 

 DUMFRIES) ORDER, 1908, will expire on the 28th day of 

 February, 1911 : 



And whereas it is expedient to RENEW the said ORDER : 

 Now, therefore, I, the undersigned, His Majesty's Secretary 

 for Scotland, in pursuance of the powers conferred upon me by 

 the Wild Birds Protection Acts, 1880 to 1908, and upon appli- 

 cation by the Joint Committee of the County and Burghs of 

 Dumfries (to whom the administration of the said Acts has been 

 delegated by the County Council of Dumfries, in terms of Section 

 76 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act, 1889, do hereby 

 make the following Order: — 



