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Loch Tulla in the Black Mount Deer Forest, by which route there 

 can be little hesitation in saying they in all probability advanced 

 southwards to Loch Awe. I am unaware whether any earlier record 

 than the above of their nesting at Loch Awe exists. 



I did not observe any flank feathers amongst the down and grass 

 tufts, etc., sent by Mr. Alston. If there were any flank feathers 

 they escaped my observation. My servant cleaned the down and 

 picked out all foreign addenda, as instructed by me. Mr. W. Evans 

 saw the egg and the down, and at once confirmed my identification. 

 I understand the round glass-topped box containing the down and 

 egg were afterwards presented to Miss Baxter by Mr. Chas. H. 

 Alston. J. A. HARVIE-BROWN.] 



Turtle Dove on the Isle of May. On ist June 1911, I put up 

 a Turtle Dove (Turtur turtur] in the lighthouse superintendent's 

 garden on the Isle of May, where it was again met with an hour 

 later. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Extension of the Capereaillie in Moray. Hearing that Caper- 

 caillies had recently appeared frequenting forest- ground near 

 Inverness, I made enquiry. Captain Fleming, of Fairburn, writes 

 that about four years ago Capercaillies were installed as a nesting 

 species on that property, and since then, they have increased in 

 numbers and are frequently seen, but none have as yet been shot. 

 He had also heard of a bird having been seen at Scatwell, but does 

 not vouch for it. The nearest place to Fairburn that they had 

 been heard of before this, was Belladrum. It is well to note such 

 finger-posts in dispersal as early as possible, and I wish I could 

 furnish more details, because the longer such statistics are delayed 

 the more difficult it becomes, to obtain them correctly not only 

 of this, but of all species which are extending their areas of distribution. 

 -J. A. HARVIE-BROWN. 



Gadwall in Barra. Not "as recorded in 'A Fauna of the Outer 

 Hebrides,' Appendix D, p. 254," a Garganey. The error consists 

 in the misapplied name Anas strepera, "Garganey Duck" (sic). 

 The correct note will be found in Graham's " The Birds of lona 

 and Mull," and had been correctly given by Robert Gray in his 

 " Birds of the West of Scotland." I cannot now at this late date 

 account for the error except as a lapsus calami, and regret that it 

 should have so long remained unchecked, my attention not having 

 been directed to it until mentioned to me by Mr. Wm. Evans a 

 day or two ago. J. A. HARVIE-BROWN. 



Pisidium amnieum in Haddingtonshire, Sphaerium laeustre in 

 Stirlingshire, and Limax maximus in Shetland. On i3th May 

 1911, I found a few examples of Pisidium amnieum in the river 

 Tyne, below East Linton, Haddingtonshire, and on the 25th of the 

 same month several of Sphcerium laeustre in the duck pond, at 



