ZOOLOGICAL NOTES 119 



CAREX KATTEGATENSIS, Fr. Bank of the Thurso River, July 1875, 

 G. Horn, in Herb. Syme. ! 



This has not been reported for the Thurso River ; only for the 

 Wick River. Could Mr. Horn have mixed his specimens? 



C. AQUATILIS x KATTEGATENSIS, Fr. = C. Grant//, Ar. Benn. Wick 

 River; F. J. Hanbury in Herb. Bennett; "Journal of Botany," 

 1897, p. 250. 



C. CAPILLARIS, L. Moss, Holborn Head, Reeves and Ward, 

 specimen. 



ATHYRIUM F.-FCEMINA, var. MOLLE, Roth. Dunnet Head, R. Dick. 



\t Lycopodium inundatiim, L. By implication, Robert Dick would 

 seem to have found this in the county; see Smiles, "Life of 

 Robert Dick," p. 296.] 



CHARA VULGARIS, Z., var. MELANOPYRENA, H. and J. Groves. 

 Mossy ditch, Ben Dorrery, August 1880, Dr. Davidson ! 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



The Weasel in Jura. On 3oth October 1895 I noticed 

 a Weasel (JMustehi vnlgaris) on the sill of a window near which I 

 sat writing. I had a good view, within a few feet, of the little 

 creature's deliberate retirement, tail towards me. On inquiry in 

 Jura I found that a man 1 have known well for about twenty years, 

 and employed as a yacht-hand, had taken a Jura Weasel in 1892 

 while trapping rabbits. The year is impressed on his memory 

 because it was the first winter he worked in Jura. He knows the 

 Weasel well from experience on the mainland. 



He has been trapping rabbits in Jura each winter since 1892, 

 and during the past season he saw two Weasels, and at once baited 

 a trap on or about 24th December 1899. On ist January 1900 

 Miss Isabella Campbell, for whom he was trapping, sent him up to 

 me with a fresh-caught Weasel. He has not been :.ble, so far, to 

 secure another or the other. The captured specimen is now in 

 the Cambridge Museum of Zoology. The traps are set solely for 

 rabbits, but Stoats have sometimes strayed into them, and in 1892 

 a Weasel did so. My impression is that Weasels are pretty rare in 

 Jura, though my man tells me that he saw two in 1897. . Stoats, on 

 the other hand, are fairly common there. Mr. Martin of Dunlossit, 

 Islay, has promised to keep a look-out for AVeasels in Islay ; he is 

 quite familiar with them, and his home gamekeeper knows them 

 also. H. EVANS, Jura Forest. 



Badgers in the Lothians. In connection with the future 

 distribution of Meles taxus in the Lothians, it may be interesting to 



