BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
ROOKERIES— conftnuei. 
Nests. 
Remarks. How long 
in existence, etc. 
Source of 
information. 
Place. 
Situation. n 
Maxi- 
mm No. 
about. 
No. in ^ 
1908. 
Parish of Lochmabeic. 
*Broadchapel. . 
Ash, Lime and a 
few Scots Fir. 
100 
Came here in 1902. | 
In 1906, seventy- 1 
eight nests. Trees 
cut down in March, 
1909. 
W. J. Halliday, 
27.iii.1909. 
250 
200 
Do. 
*Bruce's Castle 
Beech and Ash . . 
Boy killed by falUng 
off tree in rookery. 
Dumfries Courier, 
24.V.1859. 
150 
In existence very 
many years. Rooks 
very numerous in 
parish. 
W. J. HalUday, 
8.vi.l908. 
♦Thornie- 
thwaite 
G. Underwood, 
jun., 28.V. 1908. 
* All these four rookeries are kept in check and are decreasing.-J . Pringle, 4. v. 1908. 
PABISH OF MiDDLEBIE. 
Blackwood 
House. 
In trees at gate . . 
small 
E. A. Johnson- 
Ferguson, 
23.V.1908. 
70-100 
A rookery number- 
ing considerably 
over one hundred, 
existed till 1904 
at Between - the - 
Waters. On being 
evicted by the 
keepers on Spring- 
kell Estate, the 
Rooks migrated to 
Craigs, about half 
a mile from their 
old home. 
J. Campbell, 
30.V.1908. 
Waterbeck 
ViUage. 
small 
A small offshoot from 
the same rookery 
has taken up house 
on some beech trees 
Do. 
Burnfoot 
Covert. 
100 
100 
Over thirty-five years 
J. Dalziel, 
2.vi.l908. 
1 Braes Estate. 
. . 1 100 
80 1 Do 
. Do. 
