NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 89 
in the numbers of the species which occur in Dumfriesshire. 
The first Pintail ever killed at Capenoch was ‘shot on 13th 
October, 1921, and proved to be a young male just on the 
point of changing into adult plumage. The species is not 
often seen on the Lochmaben lochs but is met with 
annually in most of the littoral parishes and, near Glencaple 
(Caerlaverock), two or three lots of over one hundred were 
seen from 15th to 19th April, 1921. 
The TEAL (p. 274). Mr E. W. Brook informs me that, 
in 1920, he knew of a Teal’s nest which was two-and-a-half 
or three miles from the nearest pond or ditch. The species 
breeds fairly abundantly throughout the county, but its nest 
is not easy to find. On 4th July, 1921, I saw from forty to 
fifty Teal at the Dhu Loch (Penpont). 
The AMERICAN BLUE-WINGED TEAL (p. 276). 
The specimen, now in the Royal Scottish Museum, Edin- 
burgh, and which is recognised as the bird obtained locally 
in 1858, is not a male as has been generally accepted, but a 
female. The illustration in my book is sufficient evidence of 
this, and Dr Eagle Clark has also carefully examined the 
bird at my request. 
[The GARGANEY (p. 279). Mr E. W. Brook tells me 
that someone sent him a Garganey in the winter of 1920-2:, 
but, though probably cbtained locally, it was verv badly 
packed with no clue as to from whom or whence it came. 
Mr E. L. Gill, curator of the Hancock Museum, New- 
castle-on-Tyne, informs me that on 3rd and 4th October, 1921, 
he saw a young Garganey drake hanging in a poulterer’s shop 
near to the Museum. On inquiry he was told it had come 
from ‘‘ close to Dumfries,’’ but neither he nor I have been 
able to ascertain any farther information about this interest- 
ing specimen, and I am therefore unable to say if it was 
actually obtained within the strict limits of Dumfriesshire. | 
The WIGEON (p. 279). It is interesting to note that 
Sir William Jardine, when on a tour in Sutherlandshire in 
the summer of 1834, was the first ornithologist to ascertain 
that this species nested in Great Britain. 
The Wigeon has been found nesting in Roxburghshire, 
within five miles of Dumfriesshire, so that its breeding 
