324 BIRDS OF DUMFRIESSHIRE 
on the Mount Annan part of Woodcockair, which is a 
get some black when the snow drives them in. ^ 
variations in Plu^^^^^^^^^ 
r T684> ' BlaXck whereof Sir Ro*- DalyeUhath one 
(c^Tca 1684) .^^^^^^ ^.j^ite almost aU over his 
Is aTufky-yeJwth'Iite, paler on the underpays 
: ; the tV markings of the ^-tjie- ^^^^^^^ 
shot she had a ^-d /^^^^^^^^^^ 
jBi=irt • : whit^^^^^^^^^^^^ 
omit to state that ^hese coverts arej^^ped 
the tendency to -^:l^-'^\X2tXtl^:foXl broadly 
kfeper had tS^k Set bL across every feather under he 
SI' The late Professor Alfred Newton wrote me m 1898^ 
^t las'Sn^been known that the ^^^n^^^^ 
Blackcocks are — J^^^^^^ 
spotted . . • .^^"^'^^p J selby, November 4th, 1831. 
* Sir W. Jardine, ^n htt. to F. J . &eiDy, x 
t Sibbald's MS. Collections, p. 228. 
X Mag. Nat. Hist., 1829, Vol. II., p. 90. 
§ Handbook Brit. Birds, 1901, p. 135. 
11 Game Birds, 1894, p. 104. 
