LXVI 
BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
Kirkconnel. Penpont. 
Kirkmahoe. 
Kirkmichael. Ruthwell. 
Kirkpatrick-Fleming. 
Kirkpatrick-Juxta. St. Mungo. 
^ Sanquhar. 
Langholm. Tinwald. 
Lochmaben. Torthorwald. 
Tundergarth. 
Middlebie. Tynron. 
Moffat. „^ , ^„ 
Morton. Wamphray. 
rouswald. Westerkirk, 
The areas of land and water in the county of Dumfries 
are as follows :- ^^^^^ 
T J . . 686,302 
^tf""^ .. 3,992 
Water ' . 
Foreshore ^^'tf 
Tidal Water ^ 
4 group of lakes (the largest of them the Castle Loch. 
194-394 acres) hes near Lochmaben, forming a well-defined, 
if miniature, lacustrine district. The other lochs or lochans 
throughout the county are small, with the exception of 
Loch Skene (204 acres), which lies at the extreme north- 
east of Moffat parish at an elevation of some 1,700 feet , 
and Loch Urr (137.765 acres), of which 33.741 acres are 
within the county-boundary of Kirkcudbrightshire, the 
remainder being in Glencairn parish. 
The mountains on the northern, north-eastern and 
north-western boundaries attain in some cases to over 
2,000 feet in height, the highest points bemg White Coomb 
(2,695 feet), and Hartfell (2,651 feet) m Moffat parish 
ai^d Lowther HUl (2,377 feet), in Dunsdeer parish The 
S ground about the ' Devil's Beeftub ' (Moffat) forms the 
wftershed of this part of the Southern Scottish uplands, 
and it might almost be described as a mountam complex 
