BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
on Capenoch Moor (Keir) ; they undoubtedly had a nest, 
which, however, was not actually discovered. 
Reports from correspondents in other parts of the 
county tend to show that the Stonechat is not so rare as 
is generaUy supposed. In August and September it becomes 
widely and more generally distributed, though never 
really abundant. 
The British Stonechat has been separated by Dr. Hartert 
from the Continental form by reason of the more rufous 
colouring of its upper surface and the brighter chestnut 
of its under parts.* 
THE REDSTART. Ruticilla phoenicurus (Linnaeus). 
Local names— Redtail ; Firetail ; Pink. 
A summer-visitant of local distribution. 
Dr. Walker, in his MS. notes or Adversaria for 1773, states 
that the Redstart "builds in Glenea, in Dumfriesshire; 
comes in May, and goes about the end of August. Is called 
the Pinhr-\ It is, however, noteworthy that in an account 
of the parish of Colinton, Mid-Lothian, from his pen in 1795, 
Dr Walker uses the name " Pink " for the Blue Titmouse.J 
The Redstart is recorded as one of the " rarer species 
of birds " found in the parish of Kirkmichael in 1791.§ 
In 1832 Sir WiUiam Jardine writes of it as " an occasional 
summer-visitant, preferring those parts of the country 
which abound most in coppice wood."|| A specimen from 
the collection of Rev. W. Little, of Kirkpatrick-Juxta 
probably obtained prior to 1840, now in the collection of 
* British Birds (Mag.), Vol. III., p. 315. 
f Hist. Brit. Animals, 1828, p. 68. 
X Essays on Nat. Hist., p. 597. 
§ Stat. Acct. Scot., Vol. I., p. 61. 
11 New Stat. Acct. Scot., Vol. IV., p. 179. 
