14 NOTES ON THE BirDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 
ornithological knowledge entitles his name to be included 
here :— 
GraHAME, Rev. JAMES, b. in Glasgow 22nd April, 1765.1 
After a distinguished school and college career in Glasgow 
he was apprenticed to a Writer of the Signet in Edinburgh 
and in 1791 was admitted as a W.S. In 1795 he, however, 
became an advocate and in 1802 married the eldest daugh- 
ter of Richard Grahame of The Moat, Annan, who was 
town-clerk of that burgh. His success as an Advocate 
being limited he resolved to become a clergyman and in 
1809 went to London. He was appointed to a curacy in 
Gloucestershire and later to St. Margaret’s, Durham, 
whence he was transferred to Sedgefield in the same 
county. His health, however, declining he went to Edin- 
burgh and later to Glasgow where he died 14th September, 
1811. Besides other poetry he published The Birds of Scot- 
land (1806) and British Georgics (1808) which exemplify 
not only ingenuity and ease but also ornithological know- 
ledge. The latter work was written at The Moat, Annan, 
and it is perhaps remarkable that his Birds of Scotland had 
the uncommon distinction of a German edition published at 
Korneuburg in 1909. 
Wi..14M Hastinecs, the taxidermist, is described as being “‘ in 
a good way of business from 1860-1885.’’ He, however, 
in a paper read to the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural 
History and Antiquarian Society on 6th January, 1863, 
states that he had then been a preserver of birds for thirty 
years. (p. xxxi.) 
1 Mr Frank Miller, author of the Poets of Dumfriesshire, informs 
me that the following note was sent to him by the late Mr Thomas 
Grahame, grandson of the Rev. James Grahame:—‘‘ There is a dif- 
ference of opinion as to whether his ancestors came from Perthshire 
(and were Highland Grahames) or Dumfriesshire, but two anti- 
quarian members of the family hold the latter opinion and maintain 
that his grandfather (who married a Miss Margaret Buchanan of 
Ballat Easter, a Highland lady) was a cadet of the family of Blat- 
wood, and, coming from Hoddam at the beginning of the eighteenth 
century, settled in Glasgow. 
