BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 213 
and It 1^^'*""' " ^^""^ been harried. 
a«d the breeding-range of this species woefully curtailed 
t,^'"^'"' ™ 1^03 speaking of the Peregrine Falcon in 
the Solway area says: "In Dumfriesshire it is much 
the Moffat Hills, and Upper Nithsdale near the Stewartrv 
boundary. But there is an awful drain year by year bT 
W^ds tlTu? *r -rious how p^rLently 
birds turn up each recurrmg season to take the place of 
the slaughtered ones At the migration seasons some very 
fine examples are often got, more particularly in autumn 
when passage Falcons ' are seen now and then. These are 
f^S^rs of' 'r'' ''-"*^"%-P'-aged birds ^ t" 
year Perel-nl F , ^^'-^^■"* At this season of the 
year Peregrme Falcons are met with throughout the county 
and are far too frequently shot. It would be tedious fo 
ZlZnT locally-killed specimens, butwe Lay 
mention two birds in the Royal Scottish Museum Edin 
burgh from Bald Craig and one from the Moffat Hills for- 
merly m the collection of Sir William Jardme. Another b rd 
LffS Hins'"" ''-^ "^""r'^ obtained on the 
Sown The' " Observatoiy Museum. Max- 
weutown. The specimens from which he described the 
plumage of the adult male and female, and also young of 
th species m his Naturalist's Library, are stated by ,^r 
Wilham Jardme to haye been "procured on the Moffat 
Range of Hills durmg the breedmg season "f 
n th/if ^'"^ (Ruthwell) about 1880, 
eme?ty wh^n -^^ t ^"'"^ wood-pigeon, and thei 
temeiity when m pursuit of their prey often seals their 
doom. A Peregrme Falcon ha« been known to hare 
f hr.; K T ^ \ ^^^'^ ^* *'o«on». at a depth of 
three hundred and sixty feet. ^ 
I vT; f ■ ""^ December 18th, 1903. 
t -Vo<. Ub., 1838, Vol. IX., p. 123. 
