ZOOLOGICAL NOTES 47 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Marten in Argyllshire. (Mustela martes). Two Martens, 

 male and female, were sent to Inverness, for preservation, by Mr. 

 Campbell, Glenfmnan, Argyllshire. They are in beautiful dark fur 

 with orange-coloured throats. Mr. Campbell adds that he believes 

 there are more of them in that neighbourhood. They were taken in 

 the beginning of November. T. E. BUCKLEY, Inverness. 



Long-eared Bat in Elgin. In May 1898 a fine example of 

 Plecotus auritus was caught in a hollow tree in the oak wood near 

 the town of Elgin, and was carefully preserved by Mr. Gordon 

 Taylor, Bishopmill. As this species has not been recorded for 

 Elginshire in Messrs. Harvie-Brown and Buckley's "Vertebrate 

 Fauna," nor in the "Annals," I thought the fact worthy of notice. 

 WM. TAYLOR, Lhanbryde. 



Bird Notes from Tiree and Coll. In his notes on the Birds of 

 Coll and Tiree, Colonel Irby gives the Partridge (Perdix rinerea) as 

 nesting in Coll but not in Tiree. Partridges have nested in Tiree 

 for the last six years, and there were several nests nine years ago. 

 The Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinas} is not mentioned as 

 breeding in Coll. It breeds on Gunna, whence I have seen its eggs. 

 A pair of Stonechats (Pratincola rnbicola) nested this year in Tiree. 

 PETER ANDERSON, Tiree. 



Marked Starlings. On the chance of getting some information 

 about the roading of the Starling (Stnrmts vulgaris\ I have com- 

 menced to mark Starlings here in Denmark, and this autumn I have 

 marked 165 examples. The mark is a small ring with some letters 

 and a number, placed on one foot of the bird. Possibly some of my 

 Starlings will visit Britain, and therefore I take the liberty to ask you 

 if you will take the trouble to interest yourself in my experiment (i) 

 by publishing in the manner you think the most practical, and (2) 

 by informing me of the capture of any of these marked Starlings, 

 giving a description of the ring and its inscription, or, the bird being 

 killed, by forwarding the marked foot with the ring to me. 



Eventual results will in due time be published. H. CHR. C. 

 MORTENSEN, Adjunkt ved Katedralskolm, Viborg, Danmark. 



[We have pleasure in making known Herr Mortensen's experi- 

 ment and his request. EDS.] 



Black Redstart in the Solway Area. An immature Black 

 Redstart (Ruticilla titys) was shot upon the foreshore near Silloth, 

 Cumberland, on iyth November, by a young lad in my service, 

 whom I had directed to look along the shore with a gun. It was 

 rather shy, and he spent about half an hour in trying to get a shot at 

 it, before he secured it. It is only the second " Solway " specimen 

 that I have examined in the flesh, and is the first that I have secured 



