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feathers, both primaries and secondaries having been shed. This 

 shedding of the flight feathers would appear to take place at a fairly 

 advanced stage of the general moult, as in most specimens without 

 these feathers the red and gray plumage of the neck had nearly all 

 disappeared, and the new feathers were appearing on the back. 

 WILLIAM FARREN, Cambridge. 



Occurrence of the Loggerhead Turtle in North Uist. On 



26th November last a young example of the Loggerhead Turtle 

 (Thalassochelys caretta) was washed up on a sandy beach on the 

 island of Vallay, North Uist. It was apparently only just dead, and 

 the carapace was 6\ inches long and 5f inches broad, both measure- 

 ments being taken along the curve. I have been told that large 

 specimens have frequently been washed up in the vicinity, but no 

 one has recorded the fact, and I much doubt the accuracy of the 

 statement. C. V. A. PEEL, Oxford. 



[In Scotland this sub-tropical species has only, to our knowledge, 

 been recorded for Pennan, on the coast of North Aberdeenshire, in 

 August 1 86 1. EDS.] 



Chrysomela hsemoptera, L., in Ayrshire. In going over a 

 small collection of Coleoptera belonging to Mr. William Gilmour of 

 Greensland Farm, Stewarton, I came across a specimen of this 

 species. Mr. Gilmour informs me that he found it crawling on 

 grass near his farm last summer. Chrysomela hcemoptera is an 

 addition to the Clyde list. It has only been recorded for " Forth " 

 by Dr. Sharp in his catalogue of the Coleoptera of Scotland. 

 ANDERSON FERGUSSON, Glasgow. 



Enallagma eyathigferum in Shetland. This common British 

 dragon-fly I found in 1896 and 1897 in some abundance about the 

 moorland lochs of North Belting and the peat-holes of Gluss Isle, in 

 Shetland. I am indebted to Mr. W. J. Lucas for the identification, 

 and send this note with a view to help in working out the distribu- 

 tion of the species. R. GODFREY, Edinburgh. 



Notes on some Crustacea from Granton, Firth of Forth, 

 obtained from a Ship's Hull. About a year ago, Captain Campbell 

 (of the Fishery Board for Scotland) brought to me some scrapings 

 from a ship which had been brought into the harbour at Granton 

 to be cleaned of the barnacles and weed adhering to it. The ship, 

 which was called the " Echo," had arrived some time previously from 

 the Cape of Good Hope. The species of Crustacea obtained 

 amongst the scrapings brought to me comprised two Cirripeds, two 

 Copepods, one Isopod, and three Amphipods, all of which appeared 

 to have been recently alive. 



The Cirripeds belong to the two well-known forms Lepas 

 anatifera (Linn.) and Balanus tintinnabulum (Linn.), both of which 



