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ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Common Hare in Mull. The Common or Red Hare was at one 

 time very plentiful in Mull, where it thrived well until some few 

 years ago ; but, so far as I am aware, they are now completely exter- 

 minated. There was one, probably the very last in the island, shot 

 on the Laggan Beat on this estate on the i3th December 1882, by 

 Mr. Rossell Barnett, which weighed 1 2 Ib. It is difficult to account 

 for the total disappearance of this animal. In my humble opinion 

 the want of cropping has had much to do with it. I have imported 

 on several occasions some fresh blood, and, I regret to say, without 

 success. MACLAINE OF LOCHBUIE, Lochbuie, Isle of Mull. 



Occurrence of Sowerby's Whale in the Firth of Forth. 



About the end of April of this year a notice appeared in the news- 

 papers of a Bottle-nose Whale having come ashore at Morrison's 

 Haven. It was immediately taken possession of by some men who 

 towed it to the shore at the village of Cuthill, near Prestonpans, and 

 divested it of the blubber. The carcase lay on the shore until the 

 authorities gave orders for it to be cut up in pieces and buried. 

 About the end of June, at the request of Sir William Turner, I visited 

 the burial spot and had the remains exhumed, when I was agreeably 

 surprised to find it was a Sowerby's Whale (Micropteron (Mesoplodori) 

 bidens). The remains, as far as possible, were secured for the 

 Anatomical Museum of the University of Edinburgh, and are now 

 being prepared for preservation and description. Until the skeleton 

 is articulated, it is impossible to give correct data as to the dimensions 

 of the specimen ; but it will be probably about 1 5 feet in length, 

 and is a male. 



Another specimen of this species was obtained at Dalgetty Bay, 

 Firth of Forth, in October 1888, for an account of which see " Proc. 

 Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin." (vol. x. p. 5), by Sir William Turner. 

 JAMES SIMPSON, Anatomical Museum, University of Edinburgh. 



Scottish Stag-Horn Statistics. The following statement should 

 prove interesting to naturalists. It represents the point values of the 

 first 500 Stags' heads received by us for preservation during each 

 of the past six seasons. 



W. A. MACLEAY & SON, Inverness. 



