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the next are the property of Sir Arthur Henniker-Hughan, 

 Bart., to whom I am greatly indebted for information con- 

 cerning the second fish (7>). It was taken in the summer of 

 1904, when a porter at Parton station saw it stranded near 

 the edge of Loch Ken, either dead or dying, and took it out 

 of the water ; the fish was in an emaciated condition and 

 weighed only 39 Ibs. 



The circumstances of the capture of this fish resemble 

 those related by Lubbock for his 2 1 Ib. Pike, 1 and if his 

 estimate of the probable weight of that fish in good condition 

 is approximately accurate, then we must admit the possibility 

 that the Loch Ken fish of nearly twice the size might 

 perhaps have weighed about 70 Ibs. before it deteriorated. 

 Now the measurements of the head of this fish (B) are 

 precisely the same as those of the Kenmure specimen (C\ 

 and we may take it that the latter may possibly, if it were 

 a female fish captured during the winter months, have 

 weighed as much as 72 Ibs. and that in all probability, 

 unless it was out of condition, it did weigh 61 Ibs. 



BRITISH MUSEUM (NATURAL HISTORY). 



SCOTTISH DRAGONFLIES; SOME FURTHER 

 RECORDS AND TABLE OF DISTRIBUTION. 



By WILLIAM EVANS, F.R.S.E. 



THE perusal of Mr. W. J. Lucas's *' Scottish Dragonfly 

 Records ' in the " Annals " for July last led me to look 

 through my specimens and notes for records outside of 

 "Forth," or subsequent to the publication, in 1905, of my 

 list for that Area in the " Proceedings of the Royal Physical 

 Society of Edinburgh" (xvi. 87-96). This done, it 

 occurred to me that in other private collections and in our 

 public museums there were doubtless many unpublished 

 records to be had for the asking. Inquiries were accordingly 



1 Except that Lubbock's fish appears to have been starved, whilst the Loch 

 Ken one does not seem to have been cut off from the deeper water, and the cause 

 of its deterioration and death are unknown ; possibly it may have perished 

 simply from senile decay. 



