478 Report of Meeting? for 1889. By Dr. J. Hardy. 



Our object was now attained which was to ascertain whether the Club 

 could reach the head of North Tyne with Bcllingham and Falstone to fall 

 back on. It would require two days, but in other respects, is within reach. 

 Onr time-keeper now intervenes and warns us that we have remained long 

 enough. " We had started from Saughtree about 10 o'clock, it was now 3. 

 After a short stay at Kielder, we were driven slowly back and reached 

 Saughtree about 5.30." Such is the short and long of it in onr friend's 

 record. Before crossing into Scotland, I will quote the Bounder of 1604, 

 now preparing for publication by Mr Roundell P. Sanderson, so far as 

 applicable here. 



" It beginneth at Laimesike foorde, where Northumberland and Cumberland meete 

 upon Scotland, and extendeth eastward to ye Meere Yate upon the Fleete, and so to the 

 head of Blake-up, the bounderinge lands on ye English side beinge sometyme of ye 

 possessions of the late Lo. Burrowes, and are now in ye tenure of Sir Anthony Paumer, 

 Kt. From the head of Blake-up, the bounds extendeth to Bells Rig and so to Blackley 

 Pike ; and from thence to ye west end of ye Red Mosse so as ye Meere dike goeth up the 

 Parle Rigg to the Parle Pell, and so along ye same to Robs Crosse, and from thence to 

 the east nooke of the Carter, where Tindall and Ridsdale meete ; all the borderinge 

 lands on the Englishe side are of the possession of the Earle of Northumberland." 



In the evening, at Saughtree, an attempt was made with the aid of 

 Master A. S. Murray-Stavert's collection of eggs, and what observations 

 were made on the hills, to enumerate the Bird Fauna. Both the Kestrel 

 and the Sparrow Hawk are found near Saughtree ; also one species of Owl 

 said to build among rocks on the Liddel ; Grey Flycatcher at Kielder 

 Castle ; Water Ouzel on the streams ; Missel Thrush, Song Thrush, and 

 Blackbird; Ring Ouzel or Rock Starling, said to be frequent; Hedge 

 Sparrow or " Hedgie " ; Redbreast ; Redstart nest in a wall at Riccarton ; 

 Sedge Warbler, and Willow Wren ; Pied Wagtail ; Moor Pipit, not 

 particularly common ; Wheat-ear, common in summer ; Whin-chat, and 

 Stone-chat, on the Caldron Burn, and on the Deadwater ; Skylark, plentiful; 

 Yellow-hammer, Chaffinch, Sparrow, Bullfinch, Greenfinch, and Common 

 Linnet; Starling, Hook, and Jackdaw; Cuckoo, not very frequent; 

 Chimney, House, and Bank Swallows ; Swift ; Goatsucker ; Pheasant, 

 Partridge, Black and Red Grouse, on Thorlieshope ; (perhaps not so " thick 

 as doos in a dooket," as Dinmont promised to his companion, but sufficient 

 to allow him to " see a Blackcock, and shoot a Blackcock, and eat a Black- 

 cock too) ; " Golden Plover, Saughtree Grains ; Dotterel pays a spring visit 

 to the Fells ; Lapwing, well known : Curlew at homo here, a white variety 

 had frequented the Saughtree bogs for two or throe years ; Sandpiper ; 

 Woodcock; Snipe at Wormsclough and Deadwater; the Dunlin (Tringa 

 variabilis) breeds on the peat mosses of Wormscleugh, Saughtree Grains 

 and Fell (eggs preserved) ; Corn-Crake, Common Gallinule, and Coot ; 

 Black-headed Gull, daily on the Liddel. The Rev. James Arkle, in the old 

 Stat. Acct., 1795, adds : Wild Ducks, Wood Pigeons, Buzzards, Ravens, 

 Herons, Magpies, and Goldfinches. He says the Bittern was " formerly 

 numerous, but is now seldom to be seen." Among birds of passage he 

 classes the Kingfisher, the Yellow Seed Bird (Mntacilla lugubris), probably 

 the Fieldfare, and different species of Gulls and Shieldrakes. " Teals 

 and Wigeons are soon in spring when the waters are swelled with rain 



