BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
ROOKEEIES— continued. 
Place. 
Nests 
— 1 
Situation. m 
s 
daxi- 1 J 
iim No. 
ibout. 1 
B 
lo. in 
1908. 
.emarks. How long 
in existence, etc. 
Source of 
information. 
Parish of Dunscore. 
Dalgonar .. C 
)ld Scots Fir . . 
1 
1 1 
50— /UU ^ 
^vpr thirty-five years ] 
at least. 
•• ^ 
I. Martin, 
18.xi.l908. 
Do. 
Laggan 
Upper Linburn ^ 
Call Scots Fir . . 
40 
Has decreased ; at 
one time the farmer 
got a suit of clothes 
annually out of the 
sale of young Rooks 
tsr\\A at lid each. 
Do. 
Friars Carse .. 
Beech, Oak and 
Plane. 
700- 
1,000 
Thirty-one nests in 
one large Plane. 
Increasing annually. 
In existence since 
time immemorial. 
3.V.1908. 
30 
20 
A fairly old rookery, 
neither increasing 
nor decreasing. 
In existence sixteen 
R. E. Brown, 
24.vi.1909. 
B. Armstrong, 
9.vii.l909. 
PARISH 0 
F ESKDA 
vears at least. 
LEMum. 
Crurie.. 
Tall Spruce, Ash, 
150 
From time immemorial 
hilt now cleaned out. 
Rev. R. Bell, 
2.5.V.1908. 
PARISH OF EWES. 
Sorbie 
. Scots Fir . . 
12 
Greatly reduced 
W. Laidlaw, 
6.vi.l908. 
Unthank 
- 
About 1880, thre( 
hundred nests ; nov 
almost extinct^ 
Do. .. 
} J. Pringle, 
V 20.ix.l908. 
. Do. 
Mosspebble . 
The Manse 
•1 ■• 
About I860, nearl 
eight hundred nests 
about 1870 nuir 
bers of Ropl 
were poisoned aui 
ing nesting seasoi 
since when the nes 
have become great 
reduced and no 
very few, if any. 
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