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BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
To this most interesting record the editors of the AnnaU 
of Scottish Natural History add : " We have no hesi Ujon 
in accepting this record, for Mr. Stout is, to our knowledge 
auirtamiUar with this bird. The record is of great interest 
rtSrthe first known instance of the occurrence of 
PkylZ^pus suverciliosus in spring in the Bntish Islands 
and for the mainland of Scotland. 
THE CHIFFCHAFF. Phylloscopus rufus (Bechstein). 
A summer-vUitant. local in iu distribution, annuaUy varying gre.ll, in iU 
numbers, and cannot be considered common. 
Sir Wilham Jardine describes this species as "very rare" 
in 1832, when writing the avifauna of the pamh of Appl - 
garth and Sibbaldbie,* and some seven years 
" We have heard it once or twice of late years m our own 
"Ih^'T'ld'ti^ompiler of ornithological facts would 
be savelfrom unconscious errors, and the true distribution 
o r avifauna past and present would be -o- really 
ascertained if aU observers, when f 
were as humble as that excellent 
Tom Brown, who says of the birds of *e Parish of Jynron 
"There is almost no doubt but that tl^^ J^^^'f, 
the parish, but I have not seen its nest, and I cannot 
distinguish the bird from the WiUow-Warbler. t Mr 
R Service is of the opmion that the species ^o^rcer m 
This county than in Kirkcudbrightshire, and he suspects 
that "The Chifichafi and the Wood-Warbler occupy 
Serent grounds."§ It has been observed at Camsalloch 
* New Stat. Acct. Scot., Vol. IV., p. 179. 
t Nat. Lib., 1839, Vol. XL, p. 152. 
t Trans. D. and G. Nat. Hist. Soc, December 4th, 1885. 
§ Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasg., 1905, Vol. VIL, p. U5. 
