80 Addenda and Corrigenda. 



from the dining-room window at Capenoch (Keir) one hundred, 

 ninety-two, seventy-seven, and seventy-two feeding beneath the 

 oak trees. On October 31st I shot forty-four under the same 

 trees with the aid of decoys. 



THE TURTLE-DOVE. One of a pair was shot by J. Anderson 

 at Horseclose Wood (Ruthwell) on May 24th, 1909. An im- 

 mature female was shot near Rockhall (Mouswald) by Mr 

 Jardine Paterson in October, 1910. 



THE CAPERCAILLIE. A report that a bird of this species 

 was seen near Comlongon (Ruthwell) in October, 1911, is not 

 confirmed. 



THE BLACK GROUSE. In the autumn of 1843 some living 

 Blackgame were sent under the charge of John Shaw, head 

 gamekeeper at Drumlanrig, to Prince Albert for turning down 

 on Bagshot heath. 



The season of 1910 proved an exceptionally good one. 

 Ninety-five Blackgame were killed at Langholm on October 

 11th; and one hundred and fourteen at Auchenbrac (Tynron) 

 on October 25th, 1910. 



The curious variety of a Greyhen, which I have recorded 

 as shot " by Sir Sydney Beckwith on the moors above Beattock 

 Bridge in Annandale," was obtained on August 21st, 1828. 

 (p. 324.) 



THE RED GROUSE. The shooting season of 1910 was an ex- 

 cellent one in some parts of the county. At Langholm, where 

 the moors are particularly well studied from a sporting point of 

 view, the remarkable total of over ten thousand Grouse, shot 

 between August 12th and October 5th, was obtained. The best 

 day's bag was one thousand one hundred and ninety, killed off 

 Middlemoss (Ewes). The year 1911 proved even better on the 

 Langholm moors, where upwards of twenty thousand five hun- 

 dred Grouse were shot before the end of October. Some of 

 these moors extend into Roxburghshire, and the bag of two 

 thousand five hundred and twenty-three, killed by eight guns at 

 Roanfell on August 30th, cannot be claimed as a Dumfriesshire 

 record. On Middlemoss (Ewes) one thousand three hundred 

 and thirteen were shot on September 4th, 1911, beating the 



