82 NOTES ON THE Birps OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 
Andrew Chapman informs me that a pair nest there annually 
now. 
The number of nests at Dalswinton (Kirkmahoe) was 
only three in 1910, and it is sad to have to confess that Herons 
are subjected locally to much persecution. The former 
Heronries at Dalswinton (Kirkmahoe) and Flaskwood (Lang- 
holm) are now deserted, and there would appear to be a 
decrease at Crurie (Eskdalemuir) and at Halleaths (Loch- 
maben) where the species is zealously protected. From time 
to time I have heard of a pair of Herons having nested in some 
wood or other, and in 1910 I gave it as my belief that Herons 
which happened to nest in a new locality were often given no 
chance of returning a second year; this belief has been con- 
firmed by experience. I have, moreover, been informed that 
during the past four years, no less than ninety Herons were 
shot on a single loch, and this statement will show the treat- 
ment which is, on some properties, meted out to this bird. 
It is possible that when drawing up the list of ‘‘ Heronries 
existing in Dumfriesshire in 1908,’’ I included certain 
localities which were, as a matter of fact, only resorted to 
sporadically ; it is, in any case, significant of the persecution 
to which the species has been subjected that, from the figures 
sent in to me, I find that heronries of three, or more, nests 
can now only be recorded as below :— 
ANNAN— 
W oodecockair bs ie ea she 6 nests 
ESKDALEMUIR— 
Crurie ais a ey Ae Saf 6 nests 
KIRKPATRICK-FLEMING— 
Hollee Wood Fea Ain Ee eg 4 nests 
LOCHMABEN— 
Halleaths .. ae ae uit .. 20 nests 
The BITTERN (p. 233). A bird of this species was shot 
at Gribton (Holywood) by Mr George Logan in the winter of 
1916-17. 
The GLOSSY IBIS: Plegadis falcinellus (Linnaeus). 
On 26th July, 1911, a man employed to scare Rooks at Crurie 
(Eskdalemuir) shot an Ibis from a flock of four. It was seen 
in the flesh by Mr A. Hay Borthwick, who had often seen the 
