BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
[THE PINE-GROSBEAK. Pyrrhula enuclmtor(l.mii2^xji^). 
In his account of the parish of Kirkmichael for the Statistical 
Account of Scotland in 1791 Dr. Burgess states: "There 
is great plenty of the rarer species of birds, ... the 
pine and the common bulfinch."* Mr. J. H. Gurney 
writing "On the claims of the Pine-Grosbeak to be 
regarded as a British Bird,"t dismisses this record, for 
he says : "Dr. Burgess' name is unknown to ornithol- 
ogists, and what weight may be attached to his authority 
in the matter it is impossible to say. Professor Newton 
informs me that Kirkmichael is close to Jardine Hall, but 
that Sir William Jardine (who, as everyone knows,' was 
a very good naturalist), writing on the fauna of Dum- 
friesshire in the New Statistical Account of Scotland, makes no 
mention of the Pine-Grosbeak. Robert Gray, who I believe 
first drew attention to Dr. Burgess' catalogue, has not 
been able to throw any light on the matter in his Birds 
of the West of Scotland:' Dr. Burgess was an acknow- 
ledged botanist, and as at the time he wrote, we learn from 
contemporary writers that the Crossbill put in an appear- 
ance in Kirkmichael, he very likely confused the two 
species. 
A most puzzling record occurs in the Memoirs of the 
Wernerian Society : " Specimens of the Hawfinch, Corythus 
enucleator, recently shot at Drumlanrig, were exhibited 
at the meeting, February 9th, 1833."$ 
Corythus was never, it seems, used for the Hawfinch, 
except by Fleming, who in his History of British Animals] 
under Corythus enucleator, common Hawfinch," certainly 
does not give a description applicable to that bird; 
* Stat. Acct. Scot., Vol. I., p. 60. 
t Zoologist, 1877, pp. 242-250. 
t Mem. Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc, Vol. VII., p. 464. 
