BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
in Dumfries, mounted it, and sold it to the museum 
authorities for ten shiUings. The previously-published dates 
of 1878 and November, 1882, are incorrect. Mr. John Come 
records " The Bohemian Waxwing was once seen many 
yer ago in the vicinity of Basting's HaU (Gkncairn) * 
Dr. GriLon, in a letter to Mr. R. Service m 1877, ^ote 
concerning the late Mr. Shaw, head-gamekeeper to the Duke 
of Buccleuch, " He scarcely had any birds, and none now 
kept at Drumlanrig ; the only bird that I ~ber of 
Mr Shaw having was the Waxwing, which I remember h m 
telUng me he shot in the parish of Keir." Mr. James Malcohn 
writes me that he has in his possession a Waxwing which 
was shot at Langholm in November, 1901. It was one 
" of a flock of about a dozen, which was seen m the vicimty 
for about a week. They were feeding on privet berries, 
which were a very abundant crop that winter. 
A specimen which I found in a cupboard at Capenoch 
had no information attached to it, and may, or may not, 
have been locally obtained. ^ u r ^ ^a. 
The Waxwing is "an irregular visitor to the British Isknds. 
It breeds in the pine regions at or near the Arctic Circle m 
both hemispheres, wandering southwards in winter. T 
THE SPOTTED FLYCATCHER. 
Muscicapa grisola, Linnaeus. 
There is, I think, no doubt that the Spotted Flycatcher 
has become more common within the last fifty or sixty yeai^. 
Robert Mudie wrote of it in 1841 as being rare m Scotland, 
if indeed it at all reaches that country."} 
* Trans. D. and G. Nat. Hist. Soc., November 10th, 1888. 
t List of British Birds, B.O.U., 1883, pp. 39, 40. 
1 Feathered Tribes of Brit. Islands, 1841, Vol. I., p. 240. 
