174 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



white foam which, with scant elegance, we term cuckoo-spit, extract- 

 ing therefrom the fat little grubs of the jack-jumper {Aphrophora 

 spumarid). — Herbert Maxwell, Monreith. 



Great Snipe in Kirkcudbrightsliire. — On nth October I 

 was going to the duck flight about 5.30 p.m. on a small shoot which 

 I rent from the Culgruff estate. About fifty yards from the river 

 Dee, on the Crossmichael side, in a small bog with a lot of rushes, 

 where snipe are generally to be found, I shot a Common Snipe 

 which my dog retrieved, and had only proceeded about ten yards 

 when a bird with a soft floppy sort of flight rose within four yards of 

 me from some rushes. I could not afford to let it out far as the 

 light was very bad and took it about fifteen yards out. When my 

 dog picked it up I noticed it was very large for a Common Snipe, 

 and on my returning home and consulting a book of reference, I 

 came to the conclusion that it was a Great Snipe. Freshly killed 

 its weight was found to be under yi- oz. but over i\ oz. — W. M. 

 Russell, Castle-Douglas. 



[The bird, which is now in the collection of the Royal Scottish 

 Museum (1922-97), is a female Great Snipe, GaUinago media. — Eds.] 



Garganey in Dumbartonshire. — On ist and again (in 

 brilliant sunshine) on 2nd April 1922, my son and I saw three 

 Garganey, two drakes and a duck, on the marshes by the banks of 

 the Kelvin, west of Summerston Station. This is the locality where 

 Messrs Thomas Hill and Harry G. Cumming observed a pair on 

 1 6th May 1920. {Scottish Naturalist^ 1920, p. 153.) — John 

 Robertson, Glasgow. 



Greenshank in Linlithgo-wshire. — I have sent to the Royal 

 Scottish Museum a Greenshank which I shot on 17th October 

 on Linlithgow Reservoir. I think it is a rare bird in this county, 

 but what interests me more is that it was one of five which had 

 been frequenting the reservoir for three or four weeks, and I am 

 inclined to think they were a brood. Is it possible that they could 

 have bred in this district? I again saw a Greenshank on the 

 reservoir on 2nd November, a late date. — Seton M. Thomson, 

 Linlithgow. 



[The specimen received is an immature Greenshank in second 

 feather; although the Greenshank is gradually extending its 

 range in Scotland, it still breeds only in the wilder districts, and 

 the group on Linlithgow Reservoir is much more likely to have been 

 on southward migration, than a local brood. — Eds.] 



