XXXIV BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
Walter Scott he left Kaeside, where he at that time 
resided, on the Abbotsford Estate, and became 
manager on the estate of Coul, Ross-shire, after- 
wards going in the same capacity to Balnagowan. 
An author of lyrics. Compiled under the direction 
of his patron part of the Edinburgh Annual Register 
after 1817 An able and observant field-naturalist 
who above his initials, W.L., frequently contributed 
to the Magazine of Natural History ; notably articles 
concerning Eagles at Loch Skene, vol. i., 18^7, 
pp. 118-122 and pp. 443-445. He died at Marybank 
near Balnagowan on May 18th, 1845. 
Little, Rev. William, b. 1798, or 1799. Minister 
oi Kirkpatrick-Juxta, 1841-1867. An accepted 
authority on entomology, a keen student of botany 
and ornithology, and a correspondent of Sir William 
Jardine. Assisted Andrew Murray in the compUation 
of his Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Scotland 1853. 
Died February 17th, 1867. The small remnant of his 
collection of birds, mostly obtained m his parish, 
is now in the possession of Mr. R. Service. 
McDiABMiD, John, b. (it is stated) in Edinburgh 1790. Son 
of Rev Hugh McDiarmid, mmister of the Oraelic 
Church, Glasgow. He was educated at Edinburgh, 
being mainly self-taught, and became a clerk in the 
Commercial Bank of Edinburgh. A frequent con- 
tributor of poetry to Blackwood's Magazine and other 
journals, his poems on the stirring events of 1815 
brought him into literary prominence, and meanwhile 
he had risen to a high position in the bank. In 
1816 together vnth his friends Charles Maclaren and 
William Ritchie, he was considering the production 
of a new weekly magazine, which resulted on 
January 25th, 1817, in the appearance of The 
Scotsman. A few weeks previously John McDiarmid 
had been appointed editor of the Dumfries and 
Galloway Courier. His editorial duties left him 
little time for other writmg, but in that year he 
• Vertebrate Fauna of the Moray Saain, 1895, Vol. 11., pp. 297. 
