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when he was a boy, the Gled used to build its nest on the 

 ground in a field called the Whinny Park/ on Wester 

 Muirside Earm, then occupied by liis father ; and I find Mr. 

 Wilson, Coldingham, noting in 1865, that it had been known 

 to breed at Outlawhill, and was said to have done so at 

 one time about Earnsheugh.^ Mr. Eobert Eenton, Spottis- 

 woode Lodge, who, in 1835, lived at Jordanlaw, says he 

 remembers a Gled's nest being found about 1837 amongst 

 rushes at a clump of birks to the north of Jordanlaw farm- 

 steading ; and Mr. Hardy, when on a visit to Lauderdale 

 in the beginning of July 1842, records that Lord Lauder- 

 dale's forester informed him that this species was sometimes 

 seen on the moors there, where it nested amongst the 

 heather.^ At that date, Mr. Peter Scott, Lauder, tells me 

 the Hen-Harrier was a well-known bird on the surrounding 

 hills, and that he found a nest with five young on the flat 

 moor at the top of Wheelburn, about half-way between 

 Lauder and Broadshawrig. The female was shot near the 

 nest, for when any person approached she hovered round 

 it, but the male was shy and kept out of range. When 

 his father came from Whittinghame, in East- Lothian, as 

 gamekeeper to Lord Lauderdale, about 1837, Hen-Harriers 

 were numerous on the Lauderdale moors, and sometimes 

 four or five specimens might be seen nailed up in a row 

 on the vermin-rail near his father's house. They were 

 honoured with three nails — one through the head, and one 

 at each tip of the outstretched wings. Mr. Kelly mentions 

 that this bird was once common on the Lammermoors, 

 where its nest was usually built with heather "birns."'* 

 It would appear from the reports of the Penmanshiel 



1 Mr. Cowe says tliis park is now a part of Bogaugreen Farm. 



2 Mr. Hardy's MS. Notes. 



3 Hid. 



4 Jlist. Bcr. Nat. Club, vol. vii. p. 302. 



