4 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Readers will remember that we recorded, from The Field, 

 the nesting of Whoopers in West Perthshire in 1919 {Scot. 

 Nat., 1920, p. 68). Every care should be taken to encourage 

 the settlement of these handsome birds which have returned 

 to Scotland as a breeding species after an absence of a 

 century and a half. 



Mr John J. Dalgleish of Brankston Grange, West Fife, 

 whose death took place on 29th December last, at the 

 advanced age of 85, was one of the little band of 

 enthusiastic Scottish ornithologists who, some forty to fifty 

 years ago, gathered around Robert Gray, author of TJie 

 Birds of the West of Scotland. Though he took no leading 

 part in the investigation of our avifauna, Mr Dalgleish was 

 keenly interested therein, and contributed a number of 

 valuable papers and notes, chiefly to the pages of the Royal 

 Physical Society's Proceedings and the present magazine. 

 In one of these communications he recorded the first 

 occurrence (near Alloa) of the Desert Wheatear in Britain. 

 He formed an extensive collection of eggs, those of the 

 birds of Central Uruguay and Paraguay being a special 

 feature ; and some of our readers may remember the 

 interesting exhibits of the latter which he gave at meetings 

 of the Royal Physical Society in the early eighties. The 

 writer vividly recalls these occasions, and a visit to 

 Brankston Grange when Capercaillies were flushed in the 

 pine woods and happy evenings were spent beside the egg- 

 cabinets. 



