46 NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 
[The REED WARBLER (p. 30). This species, to date, 
has only been recorded on migration eight times in Scotland. | 
The GRASSHOPPER-WARBLER (p. 31). In the 
spring of 1911 this bird was heard and seen in the Cairn 
Valley on several occasions. Mr James Bartholomew in- 
formed me that he first saw this species at Kinelhead 
(Kirkpatrick-Juxta) on 19th May, 1914. In 1921 I saw one 
pair of Grasshopper-Warblers near Floors (Penpont), on 21st 
May and another pair near Loch Urr (Glencairn) six days 
later. 
The DIPPER (p. 34). Mr J. W. Sharpe wrote to me on 
8th May, 1912, that he had found a Dipper’s nest containing 
one egg and one young one in a Kingfisher’s nesting hole, on 
the Scottish side of the river Sark. The late Ceci! Laurie, in 
1917, found a Dipper’s nest on the Cairn, from which the 
young had only just flown, so late as 6th September. Lieut.- 
Colonel A. E. Lascelles informed me on 5th May, 1920, that 
a Dipper at Blackwood (Keir) had hatched its first brood and 
was laying a second clutch in the same nest. Ina nest which 
I watched in April, 1912, incubation lasted fifteen days, and 
the young left the nest fourteen days later. 
Mr A. Hay Borthwick informs me that a pair of Dippers 
nested, in April, 1922, at the pool in Capel Burn which has 
been the annual breeding place of this species since 1785. 
The BRITISH LONG-TAILED) DIEMOWSE (pase7: 
Two nests, both of them made in oak trees, were found in 
1911 at Barjarg (Keir). At least five pairs nested near Black- 
wood (Keir) in 1921 and the reports from various parts of 
the county show that the species is now no less common than 
it was ten years ago. 
The BRITISH WILLOW-TITMOUSE (p. ao). Parus 
atricapillus Kleinschmidti Hellmayr. My records under the 
head of the British Marsh Titmouse (pp. 40-42) should 
probably apply to the British Willow-Titmouse, which species 
differs in having a brownish-black, not zlossy blue-black, 
head; a more graduated tail, and brown edgings to the 
secondaries. 
