58 1)R ARCHIRALP'S •' (.'URIOSITIES OF DUMFRIES." 



sparlings, white-flook, whereof some are a little blueish, with 

 golden-like spots over all the skin ; skatelnad, which is a little 

 small fish an inch and a half long, shining clear as silver, which 

 the people eat (boyled) with their bones, head, and tail. They can 

 only endure one boyle or two. Lumps or Limps, Partons. 



FOWLS. 



Biltour, making a great sound in the summer evenings and 

 mornings by thrusting her beak into the ground when she cries. 



Blackcock, whereof Sir Robert Daljell hath one hanging in 

 his hall, which is white almost all over his body. 



Green plover, returning every spring in abundance and 

 staying all summer. 



Jay, called Lipper-jaj'es. taught to speak as exactly as any 

 parrot. 



Myresnipes (which like a Feldefare), called heatherbleet. 

 In pleasant summer evenings they soar high in the air with a 

 quivering voice, and are excellent meat. 



I mention none else, as being ordinary, save woodpeckers. 



QUADRUPEDS. 



In the wood of Glenae, belonging to Sir Robert Daljell, are 

 perfect squirrels, but never exceeding the bigness of a little 

 rat ; badgers in Galloway, which the country people catch and 

 boil, removing their fat for aches and bruises : hedgehog, hart, 

 and hind running wild on Galloway mountains : others in several 

 places. 



INSECTS. 



The kind of giwlle, focarii or pistrinarii, are here abundantly, 

 very like cantharides. 



This aranea which I have sent with its silk beside it, whereof 

 none are to be found in our country but in this one place, which 

 is a cove upon the seashore, environed therewith (very near) at 

 each full tide. The persons I employed to search for them tell 

 me that with lighted candles they crept into the little entrance, 

 and then came into a large dark arched room, upon which here 

 and there hang those little balls full of young, and the lady one 

 spinning amongst or about them : nothing else to be found there 

 within the vault. 



