118 BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
interviewed in 1834 at the age of eighty-three, is 
rep™ to have described it as " the most lordly of 
111 Srds builds in rocks the most maccessible, and 
would t; a positive ornament to a hill country, bu 
7or his disposition to pike out the een o innocent 
TntCdays when Ravens were more plentiful they occasion- 
aU;:;e:tS'in trees, but I am not aware o any such s^e 
; Iplus bank of a deep mountain ^^J^^^ 
commanded a view of the country around. Fmdmg access 
"bt: stratagem was resorted to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
at about thirty yards distance, pomted at and bearing on 
the nest a long string was attached to the trigger the gun 
Sir William Jardine's collection, "No. 99. Raven, trom 
^ Itfs SSIctory to be able to record at least two nesting- 
pies irttrcounly to which Ravens have resorted annuaUy 
£ upwards of forty and thirty years -pecWy^ A* 
one of these in 1906 much damage was done to fallen sheep 
Believing that such bad habits belong more to the mdividua 
Sian t?the whole species, one of the offending pair was 
Sot. The remaining one (the -le) obtained a new ma. 
with which he has nested successfuUy these last loui 
Telnl without a repetition of complaint from the farmers 
or shephlrds Such names as Raven Craig (Moffat), and 
RaSSi (Applegarth), testify to former nesting- 
* Dumfries Courier, August 27th, 1834. 
t Nat. Lib., 1839, Vol. XL, p. 226. 
