"The Birds of Dumfriesshire." 35 



(altitude, about 1,200 feet), in Kirkpatrick-Juxta parisli, in 

 1911. I saw one near Langshawburn farm (Eskdalemuir) on 

 May 24th, 1911. 



THE COMMON CURLEW. It is hardly correct to say that 

 " the curious rippling crescendo note of the Curlew in spring 

 is reserved for those who know the bird at its breeding-haunt," 

 (p. 417), for I have heard this note when on the Solway mud- 

 flats in spring. Doubtless, however, it is best known to those 

 who are familiar with the bird at its breeding-haunt among the 

 hills. 

 kj'..,-,.^- The white Curlew, which has been known to visit the head 



of Shinnel water annually in spring since 1904 (p. 419), was 

 seen there again in 1911. 



Curlews were first seen in 1911, at their inland breeding- 

 haunts in Keir on 20th, and in Tynron parish on 25th February. 

 On June 12th, 1911, I spent an amusing half-hour watch- 

 ing a pair of Curlews buffeting an old blackfaced ewe, which 

 was taking much too close an interest, as they thought, in 

 their progeny. 



THE WHIMBREL is not known to nest in the Outer Hebrides, 

 as I have stated, (p. 421.) 



THE COMMON TERN. On August 4th, 1910, three Terns 

 flew over my head while near I-ow Lann (Tynron). I was 

 unable to ascertain to which species they belonged, but the 

 appearance of any Tern twenty miles inland and far from any 

 known breeding place during fine summer weather, is remark- 

 able. 



THE BLACIv-HEADED GULL. Langshawburn Loch (Esk- 

 dalemuir), where there was a " gullery " of some two hundred 

 nests in 1908, should be named Moodlaw Loch. (p. 432.) 



In the spring of 1911 I counted about one thousand nests 

 at Loch Urr (Glenrairn), and about eight hundred at the Dhu 

 Loch (Penpont). 



The following Black-headed Gulls ringed locally, under 

 the auspices of the Editor of the British Birds Magazine, have 

 been recovered as under: — 



