. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . , vol. vi. p. 322. 5 Mr. John Wilson, late of Edington Mains, in his report on The Farming inthe East and North-Easta-n Districts of Scotland, written in 1878, says at p. 23: As our grandfathers saw it, the whole country, with the most trifling exceptions,was unenclosed ; there was scarcely such a thing as a plantation of trees ; there wasno artificial drainage, and what tillage existed was restricted to the naturally
. The birds of Berwickshire; with remarks on their local distribution migration, and habits, and also on the folk-lore, proverbs, popular rhymes and sayings connected with them . , vol. vi. p. 322. 5 Mr. John Wilson, late of Edington Mains, in his report on The Farming inthe East and North-Easta-n Districts of Scotland, written in 1878, says at p. 23: As our grandfathers saw it, the whole country, with the most trifling exceptions,was unenclosed ; there was scarcely such a thing as a plantation of trees ; there wasno artificial drainage, and what tillage existed was restricted to the naturally dryland ; the hollow parts were full of bogs, marshes, and stagnant pools. V THE GREAT BUSTARD. 209 deer^ and the roe,^ until they finally succumbed to theincrease of population in the sixteenth or seventeenthcenturies. 1 A farm near Lauder is called Hartside, and two high hills in that locality arecalled respectively North and South Hart Law. A ravine in the Lamnier-muirs, in the parish of Cranshaws, is known by the name of Hinds Cleugh. 2 There is a place called Raecleugh, in the parish of Westruther, and anotherin Langton parish which bears the name of Raecleugh Head,. VOL. II. LIMICOLM. ( 210 ) CHARADRIID^. THE DOTTEHEL. Charadrius morinellus. The Dotterell, which we thinke a very daintie dish,Whose taking makes such sport, as ma7i no more can wish ;For as you creepe, or cowre, or lye, or stoupe, or marking you {with care) the apish bird doth acting everything, doth never mark the he be in the snare, which men for him have set. Drayton, Polyolbion. The first notice of this interesting bird as occurring inBerwickshire is in Sibbalds Scotia Ulustrata, published in1684, where the author states that it often comes to theMerse: MorineUus in Mercia frequens. In cibum expe-titur, ob saporis prsestantiam. ^ About seventy years afterthe publication of the above-mentioned work, Bishop Gibson,in his translation of Camdens Britannia, states, with refer-ence to
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