BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE i67 
Mr. J E. Harting states "Two were shot in Dumfries- 
slme m the wmter of 1870-1871, as I was informed by S L 
W.lham Jardine."* I wrote to Mr. Harting about th s 
1871 that Sir Wilham Jardme told me of the Hoopoes 
in Dumfriesshire,' as I understood him, or at all evente 
I 'ihr:t":f '°"fr'''r** ' ^^^^ ^ °f ^^^^^^^^ 
shoulS!.l r^"^' f'""^ unprecedented that they 
should have been met with in winter The circum 
stance was mentioned by him in thp t ^^'^c™- 
Rammerscales and Trailflat examples (which I have al- 
Ztl7T7'^^ -/-ng been%ot*in the wiX of 
lllTllr!,^ am mformed by Mr. R. Service that about 
3sT^kr Hair ^^^^^^ 
on May 28th, 1903, when fishing at Morton Mains loch 
I saw a Hoopoe at very close quarters : it got up and flew 
off into some oak trees, and my identification of it when on 
On frisr^ir'™^^ pecunarunduIatoryflSht 
15th, 1907, one was shot by Alexander Balharry 
ITiZT' °" *°.I>rumlanrig Castle (Durisdeer). U 
pZZ Pf^^«'^.^t'on to William Campbell, Errol Park 
Perthshire, who writes me that it is a particularly fine 
maJe, and is still (1908) in his possession. One was p^cked 
up m an exhausted condition near Leadhills (Lanarkshire) 
C.^Z"u"'A """^ the possession of Mr G w' 
the C; ^^t'"*"^'- "^^'^ '^'"'^'^ l^-- mentioned^ 
Du^^Sirltnl:; -thin two miles of the 
This species is a common summer-visitant to central and 
* Handbook Brit. Birds, pp. 114-115. 
