NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 13 
going through which seriatim there are the following remarks 
to be made on the following sections :— 
THE ORNITHOLOGISTS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 
Wituram MacGILiivray’s name should be spelt with a 
capital G: a rule not generally observed. (p. xxv.) 
The epitaph on Dr. GrorGe ARCHIBALD’s tombstone in 
St. Michael’s Churchyard, Dumfries, runs Clarus in arte fuit 
medica, and so on. In my book the word medica appears 
emdica, which is nonsense. (p. xxvii.) 
Dr. JoHN STEVENSON BUSHNAN was not a Fellow of the 
Royal Society of Edinburgh. He wrote Vol. XXVII. (not 
Vol. II.), published in 1840, of the first edition of Jardine’s 
Naturalist’s Library. I have quoted, p. 72, his description, 
of the very curious capture of an Eagle on Moffat Water, 
which appeared originally in his Introduction to the Study of 
Nature : 1834: p. 237. (p. xxviii.) 
It was in 1830 that Witt1am THomas CaRRUTHERS of Dor- 
mont sent Sir William Jardine a small collection of birds from 
Madeira. (p. xxix.) 
Mention perhaps should be made here of :— 
Duncan, Rev. Henry, D.D., b. 1774, famous as the 
founder of Savings Banks. He was born at Lochrutton, 
Kirkcudbrightshire, and in 1798 became minister of Ruthwell 
where he spent the rest of his life. He contributed nothing to 
our knowledge of local Birds but as his book Sacred 
Philosophy of the Seasons (4 Vols.), 1836-7, is included by 
Messrs Mullens & Kirke Swann in their Bibliography of 
British Ornithology, his name is here mentioned: he died 
19th February, 1846. 
In 1910 I failed to recognise the Rev. James Grahame as 
a Dumfriesshire poet (p. xlix.), but subsequent enquiries have 
convinced me that he is qualified to rank as such and his 
