188 BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
occurrence of Montagu's Harrier in Scotland,* and Howard 
Saunders wrote in 1899 it " was never a resident in the 
British Islands ; ... on the contrary, it is merely a spring- 
and summer- visitor to Europe (hardly excepting the Mediter- 
ranean basin), and its northerly range is not extensive. "f 
In winter, Montagu's Harrier is found in Ceylon, Burmah 
and India, and in Africa as far south as Cape Colony. 
The specimen recorded by Mr. R. Service having been 
obtained in Kirkcudbrightshire, I do not feel justified in 
including this species on Mr. Johnstone's evidence, other- 
wise than in square brackets.] 
THE COMMON BUZZARD. Buteo vulgaris, Leach. 
Local names — Buzzard-Hawk ; Buzzard-Gled ; Ptjttock ; 
Glead ; Gled. 
Formerly a breeding-species ; is now an occasional visitor in autumn and 
winter, more seldom in spring. 
I have been surprised in collecting my notes on this species 
to have obtained so little evidence of its nesting in the 
county. That it did so regularly at the beginning of the 
nineteenth century there can be little doubt, and the 
place-name Craigenputtock (Dunscore), famous as the 
residence of Thomas Carlyle, testifies to at least one nesting- 
site of this species in former days. 
Mr. R. Service informs me that Professor Alfred Newton, 
as a boy (i.e., circa 1845), obtained the eggs of the Common 
Buzzard from a lad at Dalswinton (Kirkmahoe). 
In A Catalogue of the Birds contained in the collection of 
Sir William Jardine, is entered a Buzzard obtained 
at Jardine HaU,J and a specimen without date labelled 
" from Jardine Hall " is in the possession of Mr. J. H. Gurney. 
* Nat. Lib., 1838, Vol. IX., p. 234. 
t Man. Brit. Birds, 1899, p. 319. 
t Cat. Birds in Coll. Sir W. J., p. 2 (31), a. 
