
HERONRIES IN THE CLYDE FAUNAL AREA. 389 
and they gradually diminished ! until the climax came as above 
stated. It is possible some of these birds may have resorted to 
the policies of Buchanan Castle, as I am informed that 
there are single nests in that locality. I am also told 
by Mr. Walter Brown that a small colony of six or eight nests 
exists at the Mid Lodge, near the River Endrick, in Larch trees. 
This seems to have been known as far back as present recollec- 
tions go. At Craigallian, Herons have been known within recent 
years to nest in the wood on the north-east side of the beautiful 
little loch there, but only to the number of one or two pairs. 
None was observed this year. 
DUMBARTONSHIRE. 
Mr. James Lumsden says that “none breed in the Loch Lomond 
district, so far as I know,” but that 20 or 30 years ago they 
nested on Inch Connachan, but only to the extent of 
three nests.2 In June, 1899, I was in Luss Straits on 
three separate occasions, and always saw a few Herons about. 
When disturbed they moved into either Inch Tavannach or Inch 
* Connachan, and I saw one alight on a tree on the last-named 
island. Both islands are densely wooded, and it is not improbable 
that there are again one or two Herons’ nests therein. Gray 
writes “there is a small Heronry on one of the islands,” * and Mr. 
Harting (under Stirlingshire) that a “few pairs nest on an island 
at the head of the loch.” * This is, no doubt, Elan-a-Vow, but 
they are not there now, and it seems rather remarkable that such 
a favourable locality as Loch Lomond is Heronry-less. In Mr. 
Harvie-Brown’s interleaved copy of Gray’s Birds of the West of 
Scotland (1871), there isa Heronry entered at “Glen Fruin, auet. 
R. Gray:” and also, “ Kirkintilloch, at Gartshore, a Heronry, 
within ten years back ;” and the new Statistical Account takes the 
last-named back to an earlier date, when it says, under “ Bertram 
Shotts”—‘ the Ardea cinerea often visits us from Hamilton, Gart- 
shore, and other places.”> Mr. W. A. Donnelly informs me that 
1 Miss Mary Blackburn, in. lit., 7th February, 1899. 
2 Guide to the Nat. Hist. of Loch Lomond (1895), p. 47. 
3 Quadrupeds, Birds, and Fishes of Loch Lomond, &c., (1864), 
4 Zoologist (1872), p. 3269, ® Vol, VI., p- 627 (1839). 
