BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
COOKERIES— continued. 
Place. 
Nests. 
Situation. ImumNo. 
1 about. 
No. in 
1908. 
Remarks. How long 
in existence, etc. 
Source of 
information. 
Parish of Dryfksdaie. 
St. Michaels 

200 
80 
At least sixty years 
old, decreasing. 
C. Sanderson, 
16.ii.l909. 
Lockerbie 
Burgh. 
A few nests near 
police station. 
S. Copland, 
19.ix.l908. 
Bishopcleuch 
150 
50 
Decreasing . . 
C. Sanderson, 
16.ii.l909. 
Underwood . . 
Oak and Beech . . 
100 
Do 
Campbell Wilson. 
4.V.1908. 
Parish op Dumfries. 
Castle Street . 
Dalscone Bank 
and Sign Post 
Wood. 
Castledykes 
Beech, Oak 
Scots Tir. 
and 
100 
All gone " in 1890. 
Dumfries Courier 
and Herald, 
1.V.1890. 
Came about 1905, 
then only three or 
four nests. 
In 1834 the rookeries 
at Dalswinton and 
Amisfield getting 
too crowded, the 
older settlers drove 
off the younger, and 
about fifty nests at 
Castledykes were the 
result. 5^ There has 
been no rookery at 
Castledykes since 
the time of the 
Cummin " (circa 
1300). 
B. Service, 
18.ii.l909. 
W. Coupland, 
l.vi.l908. 
Dumfries Courier, 
23.iv.1834. 
Famous for White 
Rooks. 
Do. 
Do. 
Do., 28.V.1834. 
Do., 20.V.1835. 
Do., 18.V.1841. 
