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the present species. I consider the Wild Birds Protection Acts of 

 iSSo-Si, which have largely put a stop to the carrying of fire-arms 

 during the breeding season, to be in a great measure the cause of 

 this satisfactory increase in what was only a few years ago a com- 

 paratively rare species. ROBERT H. READ, Westminster. 



Green Sandpiper in Argyll. On the 8th of August, while passing 

 near a small lochan two miles inland, a solitary bird rose off the bog 

 and settled by the side of the water. My gamekeeper said, " That's 

 a bird I never saw before" ; and as I was equally unable to say what 

 it was, we went after it and I shot it, and found it to be a Green 

 Sandpiper (Totanus ochropus], which proved on dissection to be a 

 female. As this species has no place in the "Vertebrate Fauna of 

 Argyll," its occurrence may be worthy of record. A. BURN MURDOCH, 

 Edinburgh. 



Notidanus griseus captured off the Orkney Islands. A fine 

 female specimen of the Six-gilled Shark was brought into Aberdeen 

 Market upon ist August 1894, which had been taken to the north- 

 west of Orkney. Its stomach contained haddocks and common dab. 

 This is by no means a common form for the Scottish coasts. One 

 was caught off Banff in 1857, and is now in the Museum there. 



Upon Qth August three more two females and one male of this 

 species were caught by the same fisherman in the same locality. 

 These were also brought to Aberdeen. Their stomachs contained 

 Fishing Frog (Troplmis piscatorius), Picked Dog-fish (Acanthias 

 vulgaris\ and Plaice (Pleuronectes platessa). GEORGE SIM, Aberdeen. 



Mollusea from the Islands of Barra and North Uist. I recently 

 obtained Planorbis nautihus, Linn., and Planorbis glaber, Jeffreys, 

 from the Island of Barra, and Ancylus fliiviatilis, Mtiller, from North 

 Uist. The two former are from Sinclair Loch, Barra, where they 

 were obtained in tow-net gatherings from that loch, and both were 

 moderately frequent. The Ancylus was frequent on stones in the 

 bed of a small stream that flows out of the east end of Loch Fada, 

 North Uist. T. SCOTT, Leith. 



Maeroglossa bombyliformis in the island of Jura. In the 



" Annals " for 1892, p. 141, I recorded the occurrence of the narrow- 

 bordered Bee Hawk-moth in the island of Jura. I have this season 

 actually captured a specimen in the same locality. HENRY EVANS, 

 Jura Forest. 



Diaptomus serrieornis, Lilljeborg, in Lochs in Barra and 

 North Uist. This Copepod was added to the British fauna in 1891, 

 from specimens obtained in a tow-net gathering from Loch Mullach- 

 Corrie, Sutherlandshire, collected by W. S. Caine, Esq., M.P. (see 

 " Scottish Naturalist " for October 1891, p. 172; also "A Revision of 

 the British Species of Fresh-water Cyclopidae and Calanidas," by Prof. 

 G. S. Brady, p. 36). It had been taken in a loch in Shetland 



