Novres ON THE Birps OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 79 
Goshawk, the more valuable of the two. Robert Gray’s 
argument [that Sparrow Hawks were not much valued in 
falconry | is fallacious in as much as the document in ques- 
‘tion shows that Sparrow Hawks were valued by the falconer, 
and on that account: were specially protected.’”’ Mr 
Harting’s criticism, of the authorities I quoted in 1910, is 
most interesting and it may be that the Goshawk did indeed 
breed regularly in Eskdale in the thirteenth century. | 
The SPARROW HAWK (p. 206). On 11th November, 
1913, a Sparrow Hawk pursued a House Sparrow into a 
public-house on the Whitesands in the town of Dumfries, 
where both birds were captured.484 Shooting at Laight 
(Tynron) on 26th September, 1918, a Partridge was wounded 
and disappeared round a hill pursued by a female Sparrow 
Hawk. Immediately after, when walking the hill in line, the 
Sparrow Hawk rose and was shot, when it was found that 
it had killed, and had commenced to eat, the Partridge. On 
more than one occasion I have found the remains of Wood- 
cock which appeared to have been killed by Sparrow Hawks. 
On 24th April, 1919, I saw a Sparrow Hawk, at Capenoch, 
fly off with a Woodcock which it had just killed and, when 
shooting at Ardwell, Wigtownshire, on 13th January, 1922, 
I saw a Sparrow Hawk in actual pursuit of a Woodcock. In 
1921 I heard of a case where a Magpie had been the victim 
of a Sparrow Hawk. 
The PEREGRINE FALCON “(p. 212).  Peregrines 
nested in several of their accustomed haunts in the spring of 
1911, and I knew of one eyrie in a new locality ; the two eggs 
were, however, taken after they had been laid three weeks. 
A pair nested at Craighoar (Kirkpatrick-Juxta) in 1911, but 
the male was shot on 4th May and the nest with three eggs 
was deserted. Peregrines nested at Glenwhargen (Penpont) 
In 1913, 1918, 1919, 1920 (when a second pair attempted to 
nest in a neighbouring glen), in 1921 and 1922. From the 
reports I have received there would seem to be as many eyries 
now annually tenanted as in 1910, but it is melancholy reading 
134 Dumfries and Galloway Standard, 12th November, 1913. 
