84 BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
according to the season. , -r o^^vice although 
within three hundred yards ° ^^^^^ndred and 
nests of which were^w.th. ^^^^^XLTXv^ colder 
rrl'tfwet'ataC, aid in that spring I found 
but not so wei ^.^^^ feathers. . . • 
have known since Wl^o^d. ^ad /.n ooa 
two m their -ts^^]''^;^ -^^^^^^^ ^t f xnjhe ^ J 
/eatfeer limr^ m the full /\ . ^^1 had 
the Nursery colony remained after July lUtn, 
^"Mr.tmlr-'llidlaw informs - of a cream-^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
.pecimen seen in ^^^^^J^^C^:^ ^ZSZ 
^orS^^^^ a brilliantly red poll, in 
his garden at Greystone (Dumfries). 
• Ann. Scot. Nat. Hut., 1904, pp. 67, 68. 
