BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
traced from Dumfriesshire to East Lothian thence to 
Aberdeenshire, Banffshire and Caithness in all of which 
counties several specimens have been obtained."* 
The late J. Gilchrist Clark of Speddoch (Holywood) 
saw this species there on more than one occasion about 
1890: and Mr. John Anderson informs me that he saw what 
he took to be a Hawfinch at the end of November or early 
in December, 1894, near Torthorwald. Howard Saunders 
states " the species has been taken in winter in the Solway 
area."t Individuals have since been recorded; Mr. 
Bartholomew found one dead near a shepherd's house, 
about one thousand feet above sea-level, among the hills 
near Kinnelhead (Kirkpatrick-Juxta), on April 6th, 1903 ; 
the specimen was identified by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke.J A 
Hawfinch was shot near Langholm in July, 1903, and Mr. 
James Malcolm informs me that it was a solitary one, and 
in its depredations amongst the green peas " it snapped the 
pods with its strong bill just as if they had been done with 
a pair of pincers." 
A Hawfinch was believed to have been seen at Gribton 
(Holywood) in 1907, and Mr. Steele is confident that he saw 
one of these birds at Stonehouse (Gretna), in April, 1908. 
On June 17th, 1906, a nestling Hawfinch which was' being 
fed by the parent birds, was taken from the nest near 
Langholm, and was reared by Mr. WiUiam Laidlaw. He 
further informs me that in the first week of June, 1908, 
a pair of these birds were seen feeding a young one close 
to the engine-house at Burnfoot Saw Mill (Canonbie); and 
that in the preceding winter a flock of nine was observed 
within a mile of that place. In the near vicinitv, but within 
the boundaries of Cumberland, I hear that "this species 
nested in 1907 and 1908. During the winter of 1909- 
1910 Hawfinches were plentiful near Canonbie, as many as 
twenty.five being seen together in one flock ; but they all 
* Birds of West Scotland, 1871, p. 144. 
t Man. Brit. Birds, 1899, p. 171. 
t Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 1903, pp. 184, 185. 
