NoTES ON THE BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 57 
The COMMON CROSSBILL (p. o1). The late 
Colonel W. H. Feilden informed me that in November, 1853, 
he shot three male and four female Crossbills at Raehills 
(Johnstone): at that time there were plenty in the woods 
and he was told that they had bred there for several years. 
A flock of six were seen near Craigdarroch (Glencairn) early 
in November, 1911, and a pair were sent to me for identifica- 
tion from Drumlanrig (Durisdeer) on 5th February, 1972, 
when I was told there were a good many there. Seven were 
seen near Moffat in November, 1915, and I am informed that 
in 1918 Crossbills nested near Craigdarroch (Glencairn). 
The TWO-BARRED CROSSBILL (p._ 99). The 
alleged occurrence of this species in 1882 near Rothie- 
murchus, Inverness-shire,! would (if good?) make the Dum- 
friesshire record the third, and not the second, of its 
occurrence in Scotland. 
The CORN BUNTING (p. too). I saw several of these 
birds at Breccoes (Keir) on 8th August, 1910. The small 
colony of Buntings near Sanquhar is said to have first estab- 
lished itself there about 1901, and from fourteen to twenty 
pair now nest there annually.1® In the littoral parishes the 
species is said to be increasing. 
Tine WIBILILOWN IBUINIBONG, (Go) tem) Orn: yada [forays 
1918, a Yellow Bunting’s nest was found at Capenoch (Keir) 
in a bed of forget-me-nots. The plants had to be removed, 
so the nest was taken up and placed in another bed about 
fifteen yards off. The bird did not forsake and six days later 
hatched her five eggs. In 1920 Lieut.-Colonel A. E. Lascelles 
found two nests near Blackwood (Keir) which were built in 
young spruce firs about four feet from the ground. 
In reference to the rhymes current locally as regards the 
connection of this species with his Satanic majesty, 
‘“ Chambers says that this bird (called Devil’s bird in the 
North of Scotland) is the subject of an unaccountable super- 
stition on the part of the peasantry, who believe that it drinks © 
108 British Birds Magazine, Vol. V., pp. 24, 25. 
109 The Augur, 26th February, 1921, p. 19, 
