66 NOTES ON THE BiRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 
maximum. It will be noticed that in some cases the infor- 
mation at my disposal has only justified me in entering the 
ee 99 
number of nests as ‘‘ some’’ and I may here point out that 
when I have received more than one estimate of the numbers 
of any Rookery I have added these estimates, divided the 
total thus gained by the number of my informants, and giv- 
ing the resulting figure in my census :— 
Nests in 
Parish and Place. 1908. 1921. 
ANNAN— 
Mount Annan a He 1000 300 
Greenbank ae wae some 20 
The Moat - ae 30 49 
Fruids Park abe BG 40 20 
Solway Cottage .. Sg 0 20 
1070 409 
APPLEGIRTH— 
Jardine Hall a ie 1020 900 
Balgray we as uo 120 120 
Hewke nee He ae 64 100 
Sibbaldbie .. a ee 70 70 
Hallhills .. ae ae 0 190 
Lammonbie ai aye 0 120 
Dinwoodie ie a 0 60 
1274 1560 
CAERLA VEROCK— 
Wardlaw Hill ae He 100 280 
Hutton Hall ive ies 50 0 
150 280 
CANONBIE— 
Crow Wood bes aes some 0 
Irvine House Ses tae 3 0 
Auchanrivok Bank a 10 0 
13 0 
CLOSEBURN— 
Castle Wood and Blackrigg 350 280 
Sheep parks, fae && .. 150 100 
Brattles belt ; ane 200 120 
Sand River belt .. ee 50 50 
Park Wood eae hes 0 4 
750 504 
CUMMERTREEHS— 
Murraythwaite ae an 220 0 
Glenstuart a 150 300/400 
Cummertrees Station ne 50 0 
Hoddam oa we is 200 0 
Hoddam Castle Be Ae 150 0 
Forkhill Ba ae ae 200 100 
970 400/500 
