BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 111 
This species, formerly a comparatively common resident 
along the British coast, is now only found in some spots 
on the west of Scotland, Ireland, Wales and south-west 
of England. 
THE BRITISH JAY. 
Garrulus glandarius rufitergum, Hartert. 
Local names — Jay-Piet ; Jay-Pie. 
A very local resident whose numbers are in some autumns considerably 
increased by visitors, most of which, however, depart again in spring. 
Dr. Archbald mentions the Jay in his hst of local birds 
written about 1684, as " caUed Lipper-jayes, taught to 
speak as exactly as any parrot."* During the eighteenth 
century this species, I believe, was a regular resident, 
generally distributed throughout the county, although there 
is no mention of it in the description of the Dumfriesshire 
parishes in the Statistical Account of Scotland compiled 
in 1791-1799. In the New Statistical Account^ Sir WiUiam 
Jardine writes of it in 1832 as " very rare " in Applegarth 
and Sibbaldbie parish. -j- About this date it is described from 
Lochmaben as, though not abundant, to be found in the 
woods of Elshieshii3lds,t and from Mouswald to be seen 
in the woods of Rockhall.§ Writing of the Jay in 1839 
Sir WiUiam Jardine says : " Residing in a district where 
the Jay is not immediately common, we have not had a 
constant opportunity of seeing them/'|| Dr. Grierson 
records in his notes that Thomas Maxwell told him that in 
* Sibbald's MS. Collections, p. 228. 
t New Stat. Acct. Scot., Vol. IV., p. 180. 
t Op. cit.. Vol, IV., p. 382. 
§ Op. cit.. Vol. IV., pp. 443, 444. 
II Nat. Lib., 1839, Vol. XI., p. 254. 
