NOTES ON THE BirRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE. 117 
I am told that Great Crested Grebes are occasionally 
found in the Solway fishing nets, and one was picked up dead, 
at high water-mark, near Powfoot (Cummertrees), on 3rd 
April, 1921. 
The RED-NECKED GREBE (p. 461). The Catalogue 
of the Birds contained in the collection of Sir William Jardine 
was printed in 1874, not 1847, as indicated. 
The SLAVONIAN GREBE (p. 462). My statement, 
made in 1910, that the Slavonian Grebe had bred in “ Argyll- 
shire,’’ is erroneous; it was recorded as having nested in 1908 
and 1909 in Inverness-shire. 18 
The BLACK-NECKED GREBE (p. 463). Mr E. W. 
Brook informed me that on 3rd August, 1921, he saw a single 
bird of this species on the Powfoot Lakes (Cummertrees). 
The LITTLE GREBE (p. 464). I found a Little Grebe’s 
nest at Glengar Loch (Penpont) on 18th May, 1914, at the 
Bobie Loch (Keir) in 1920, and at the Far Loch (Keir) in 1922. 
The species, however, does not always nest on the same lochs 
in succeeding years, and I have as yet received no information 
as to its nesting in Eskdale. 
The STORM PETREL (p. 466). One was picked up 
dead, about 1890, near Hoddam, in the winter. 
PeACHES PORK DAILED) PEDREL (ps 468). 5 Dhe 
specimen recorded as picked up ‘‘ by Mr John Jardine ’’ was 
found by him on 16th November, 1830, about three miles north 
of Jardine Hall (Applegarth) ‘‘ after one of the most violent 
storms of thunder, wind, and rain that had for many years 
visited Dumfriesshire.’’!89 A Leach’s Fork-tailed Petrel was 
found dead, after a severe gale, in a wood near Courance 
(Kirkmichael) in October, 1905. One of these birds was 
found on the road between Cummertrees and Annan on 15th 
November, to11, having killed itself by flying against the 
telegraph wires. 
188 British Birds Magazine, Vol. III., p. 380. 
189 Edinburgh Journal of Natural and Geographical Science, 
1830, Vol. III., p. 46. 
