NOTES ON THE BirpS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 7a 
Owl. Mr R. Wood has sent me a photograph, taken in 
July, «919, in the goods shed at Carronbridge Railway 
Station, of three nestlings. Mr James Bartholomew has 
recorded the occurrence of a Barn Owl at Kinnelhead 
(Kirkpatrick-Juxta).1°6 
In August, 1911, an Owl (of what species is not men- 
tioned) is stated to have flown against and smashed the thick 
glass look-out window of the cab of a railway engine which 
was travelling at express speed between Kilmarnock and 
Carlisle.12" 
The SHORT-EARED OWL (p. 176). In the spring cf 
1912 Voles were reported to me as more than usuaily 
numerous in Closeburn parish, by Mr Borland, who further 
stated that his shepherd had seen a pair of Short-eared Owls 
near Auchencairn. The species is occasionally seen in 
Lochar Moss and near Springkell (Kirkpatrick-Fleming). 
In 1921 I was informed that Short-eared Owls were nestinz 
in Sanquhar and Kirkconnel parishes and a specimen was 
sent me from near Langholm, with the remark that this 
species had not been seen since the Vole plague of 1891-3, 
but that it was now plentiful in that district. 
The MARSH HARRIER (p. 184). Carse Wood, where 
a fine old male Marsh Harrier was killed on 5th May, 1898, 
is in Tinwald, not in Kirkmichael, parish. 
The HEN HARRIER (p. 185). A bird, confidently re- 
ported to me by two observers as of the Harrier species, was 
seen at the junction of the Scaur and Nith (Keir) on 26th 
October, 1917. An unidentified hawk, alleged to have been 
a Hen Harrier, was seen near Cummertrees in February, 
1920. 
Colonel Crabbe informs me that a Hen Harrier was shot 
by his keeper near Duncow (Kirkmahoe) in March, 1929, 
which unfortunately was not preserved: it was thought to 
have been a female and a male was said to have been seen 
126 Scottish Naturalist (1916), p. 38. 
127 Thornhill News, 14th August, 1911, 
