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country there seems to be a lesson here as to the folly of undue 

 interference with the balance of Nature. CHAS. H. ALSTON, 

 Letterawe, Loch Awe. 



White Common Hare in Dumfriesshire. Mr. Cecil Laurie 

 informs me that on 2yth December 1910 he shot a white brown- 

 hare in Beuchan Wood. He is certain that it was L. europtxus 

 and not L. timidus (the Mountain Hare), on account of its size 

 and also its legs and pads, which were brown. He is, moreover, 

 well acquainted with both species of hares ; but it is unfortunate 

 that the skin was not kept. I have in my collection a white hare 

 which was found dead near Byreholm, on 2oth December 1903. 

 This specimen is completely white, with only a suspicion of a 

 brown hair here and there. On 2oth November 1907 a hare 

 with a white face and white forefeet was shot at Carron Water. 

 All the above-mentioned places are within a radius of five miles 

 of Thornhill, Dumfriesshire. HUGH S. GLADSTONE, Thornhill, 

 Dumfriesshire. 



Winter Visitors to Wigtownshire. On 25th November 1910, 

 nineteen VVhoopers alighted on the White Loch of Myrton, a sheet 

 of water some 60 or 70 acres in extent within the park at Monreith. 

 I watched them through the glass for a long time at a distance of 

 not more than 250 yards. They were all in adult plumage except 

 three cygnets. They were joined in the night by two other adults 

 and two cygnets, and took their departure about 9 A.M. The loch 

 has been treated as a sanctuary for wild fowl for more than seventy 

 years. The Mute Swans on the loch did not pay the slightest 

 attention to the strangers. On 7th January 1911, when Viscount 

 Dalrymple, M.P., Captain Aymer Maxwell, and the Hon. Gerald 

 Legge were shooting wild fowl on Cults Loch near Castle Kennedy, 

 they flushed a Bittern several times. It is agreeable to record that, 

 although the bird might easily have been shot, none of the three 

 sportsmen dreamt of firing at it. O si sic f lures ! The bird was 

 flushed three times to put its identity beyond doubt. HERBERT 

 MAXWELL, Monreith. 



The Northern Bullfinch, Holboll's Redpoll, etc., in the Lothians. 

 With reference to the records from Fair Isle and the Isle of May 

 in the January "Annals," I have a Northern Bullfinch which was 

 caught on agth October 1910 at the nursery gardens, Archerfield, 

 East Lothian, by Mr. Logan, forester, from whom I subsequently 

 obtained it. Having heard that an unusually fine bullfinch had 

 been got at Archerfield I went to see the bird, and was pleased to 

 find it to be a typical Pyrrhula pyrrhula (Linn.) ; a large brightly- 

 coloured male with a wing measurement of fully 94 mm., and a bill 

 of about ii mm. along the ridge. On 3ist October, a bullfinch, 

 probably also of this race, rested for some time at Barnsness light- 

 house, near Dunbar, as I was informed by Mr. Budge, the light- 

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