NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 21 
most useful of his papers, all of which I have gratefully 
perused, is ‘‘ Our Present Knowledge of the Fauna of the 
Forth Area ’’ published in The Proceedings of the Royal 
Physical Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XII., pp. 1-64d. 
T. GarneTT?’s Observations ona Tour Through the High- 
lands and Part of the Western Isles (2 Vols.), 1800, contains 
in Vol. II., p. 262, a reference to ‘‘ Eagles ’’ [? Ospreys] at 
"och Skene. 
Mr Rosert Goprrey contributed a paper, ‘‘ A Night in 
the Dumfriesshire Hills,’’ in the Naturalists’ Chronicle (Cam- 
bridge) 1897, pp. 81-4. 
The late H. GoopcuiLp in The Avicultural Magazine of 
December 1909, pp. 52-8, contributed a paper entitled 
‘“ Wild Birds about Hoddom.”’ 
The Catalogue of Dr Grierson’s Museum, Thornhill, 
1894, is a publication which should be included here. 
Dr James Kine HEwIson was the editor of the volume of 
the Cambridge County Geographies dealing with Dumfries- 
shire (1912) in which, on pp. 44-46, there is a list of local 
birds. 
The Catalogue of the Birds contained in the Collection of 
Sir W. Jardine, is dated with a query [? July, 1847]. This 
catalogue is of great rarity. I only know of one copy con- 
taining a title page and this was given me by Lady Hooker, © 
Sir William’s second wife. I have learnt that the catalogue 
was drawn up by Sir William and his secretary, Miss Kent, 
just before he died; in fact, the proof sheets were not passed 
till a month after his death and it was never. rightly pub- 
lished; though two hundred and fifty copies were delivered 
at Jardine Hall: these, I believe, were subsequently all 
destroyed. The date [? July, 1847] is therefore clearly 
wrong, and should read 1874. (p. lv.) 
SiR WILLIAM JARDINE’S ‘‘ MS. Calendar, January-May, 
1829,’ has been printed, with comparative notes, in the 
Trans. D. and G. Nat. Hist. Soc. (Third Series) Vol. VI., 
1919, pp. 88-124. (p. lvi.) 
The references to the various volumes of Jardine’s 
Naturalist’s Library refer to the first edition and to the 
ornithological section of that work. This observation should, 
