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Pintails at Edenmouth. In the first week of January 1900 a 

 poulterer in Morningside, Edinburgh, in whose shop I saw them, 

 received no less than eight Pintails (Dafila acuta) from the estuary of 

 the Eden near St. Andrews. They were all females and young males. 

 I fear some of them at least would be Loch Leven birds, for there 

 was much ice on the loch in the end of December. The number of 

 pairs breeding on Loch Leven last year seems by all accounts to 

 have been larger than when I discovered the colony there two years 

 ago (" Annals," 1898, p. 162); but between indiscriminate egging 

 which, there is reason to believe, was as great as ever last year and 

 shore shooting, the rate of increase must be very slow. WILLIAM 

 EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Iceland Gull in Bute. Through the kindness of Mr. 

 M'Culloch, taxidermist, Glasgow, I had the pleasure of exhibiting, 

 to the Andersonian Naturalists' Society, on i2th January, an Iceland 

 Gull (Larus leucopterus, Faber) in the flesh, which had been received 

 on that date from Port-Bannatyne, Bute.- JOHN PATERSON, Glasgow. 



Little Auk at Portobello. A young female specimen of the 

 Little Auk (Mergulus alle) was captured in the clay-pits on the south 

 side of the railway between Portobello and Piershill Stations, on 

 2oth November 1899. W.M. S. BRUCE, Joppa. 



Little Auk at Corstorphine. A young female specimen of the 

 Little Auk (Mergulus alle) was found on the railway to the west of 

 Corstorphine Station on ist March 1900. It was seen to fly against 

 the telegraph wires, and, thus injuring itself, was captured. T. N. 

 JOHNSTON, Corstorphine. 



The Little Auk on Dalmeny Shores. For the first time since 

 the memorable winter of 1894-95, the Little Auk (Mergulus alle) 

 has made its appearance here. On the 22nd of February a living 

 one was picked up some little distance inland, and the next day a 

 dead one was found on the shore. The weather at this time was 

 very stormy, with gales mostly from the north-east. CHAS. CAMPBELL, 

 Dalmeny Park. 



[About the same time two were obtained at Portobello, as we 

 are informed by Mr. W. A. Nicholson of that town, and since we 

 went to press Mr. Campbell has informed us of six other specimens 

 having been washed up at Dalmeny and Granton. EDS.] 



Little Auk on the Solway Firth. The only specimen of 

 Mergulus alle that has, to my knowledge, been obtained on the Solway 

 Firth this winter was shot near Silloth on 5th February. I purchased 

 it for the Carlisle Museum. H. A. MACPHERSON, Pitlochry. 



The Dog-fishes of the " Clyde " Waters, and a Correction. As 



my name is mentioned in connection with the record of this fish 

 for the Clyde, published in the January number of this magazine, it 

 may be of interest to give the results of some inquiries I have made 



