230 BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
Heronries existing in Dumfriesshire in 190S— continued. 
Parish. 
Situation and Approximate Number of Nests. 
How long in existence, etc. 
Source of Information. 
KlRKPATRICK- 
Fleming. 
HoUee Wood. On rather low Oak trees In exist- 
ence since about 1900 ; usually two nests. 
W. F. Graham, 
26.V.1908. 
KiRKPATRICK- 
JUXTA. 
Hillhouse Plantation Never more than two nests 
usuaUyone; on taUest trees m wood. They shift 
annually. 
John T. Johnstone, 
l.vi.l908. 
Langholm 
In 1872, two or three nests at Langlwlm. [This 
record may refer to the heronry at riaskwood] 
Flaskwood In 1908, twelve nests ; top of very 
hTgh Spruces Sometimes they nest further up 
thi Ewes, but mostly here. Have been known 
for the last thirty years. 
Zoologist, 1872, p. 3267. 
W TTainintr 1 V 1908 
LOCHMABEN 
HaUeaths. 1835. Breeds in great numbers. . 
1872. Fifteen to twenty nests, chiefly on Scots 
190?.' Twenty-seven nests. AU on high old Scots 
Firs. 
New Stat. Acct. Seat., 
Vol. IV., p. 382. 
Zoologist, 1872, p. 3267. 
W. J. HaUiday, 
8.vi.l908. 
MOFFAT . . 
Dnmcrieff Woods. In 1872 a number of nests. 
1908 In the tallest trees in the woods ; never more 
than two, usuaUy one. 
Zoologist, 1872, p. 3267. 
John T. Johnstone, 
l.vi.l908. 
RUTHWELL 
Nether Lochar Wood. On Scots Firs. Tliree 
pairs since 1905. 
J. Harkness, , 
20.ix.l908. 
Sanquhar 
Glenmaddie. Two nests Scots Firs about thirty 
feet from the ground. Came about 1906. 
Thos. BaUantyne, 
23.V.1908. 
TYNRON . . 
Anchanhessnane. In some years six nests ; three 
in 1908 Have nested here about forty years, but 
not continuously. On very taU Spruces. 
J. Currie, l.vi.l908. 
[The supposition as to the appearance of the Great 
White Heron (Ardea alba, Linnseus) on the Solway, 
in the winter of 1840-1841, above Port Carhsle in 
Cumberland,* has been shown by H. A. Macpherson to 
have been erroneous.f There are no records, so far as 
I am aware, of the occurrence of this species m the 
county (see Spoonbill, p. 239).] 
[The Little Egret (Ardetta garzetta, Linnaeus). It 
is recorded in the Dumfries and Galloway Courier 
of March 2nd, 1836, that ''On one occasion Colonel 
* Nat. Lib., 1842, Vol. XII., p. 135. 
t Zoologist, 1888, p. 330. 
