BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 17- 
the Ifath the H T ^^^^'^ "P°" ^^e ground on 
•pp-S!^ ~- 
«t n short di.l»nc«, surrey the .rer™ j 
In 1838 Sir WiUiam wrot^ • Tr, fi. .1 . 
^ ^January , by no means common, however fnnr r.r^ « 
WiUiam Hastings has recorded that the Short P«r«H 
in 1893 Peter Gray writing the reminiscences of his boy: 
• Amer. Ornithology, 1832, Vol. II., pp. 63 64 
t Net. m., 1838, Vol. IX., pp. 285, 287. ' 
