48 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



N. lat. In Norway at 70 8', E. Fin mark and W. Fin mark 

 at 70 19' (Norman " Notationes summatim concepts;," p. 

 516, iSSi). In Iceland, Greenland ("Islands Flora," p. 

 138, iSSi). Landt reported it from the Faroes, but I am 

 not sure whether it has been confirmed from them since ; 

 it is not admitted by Rostrup (" Faeroernes Flora," p. 72, 

 1870) ; nor is it given for the Faeroes in Ostenfeld's " Flora 

 Arctica," 1902. As the var. Doellii, Milde, it occurs in 

 West Greenland at 60 35' (Ostenfeld, " Flora Arctica," p. 9). 

 In Canada it is " quite common throughout the northern 

 forests, and westward through the mountains to the Pacific " 

 (Macoun, "Cat. Canad. PI.," pt. 4, p. 252, 1888), but it does 

 not seem to reach the extreme north. 



From this distribution there seems no reason why it 

 should not be found in the extreme north of Scotland, the 

 Orkneys, and the Shetland Isles. In England it extends 

 south to E. Kent and Surrey, but is not recorded further 

 south, and only from N. Somerset, in the S.W. of England. 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Polecat in Ross-shire. I received in December a remarkably 

 fine male specimen of the Polecat (Mustela putorius). The animal 

 was in fine fur, and was 22 inches in length and weighed 2f Ibs. 

 It was taken in a trap set for rabbits in a rocky hill face at Leck- 

 mehn, Ross-shire. Fifty years ago the Polecat was found in every 

 county from the Sohvay to Sutherlandshire, and at that time was 

 tolerably numerous in the Oban district. The Pine Marten {Mustela 

 martes) is also fast becoming extinct. A very few specimens have 

 been obtained in late years, and these have also principally been 

 taken in traps set for rabbits. A very fine specimen of the Pine 

 Marten was thus captured in the Melfort district a short time ago. 

 This latter specimen, together with the Polecat, has been added 

 to my collection of Highland mammals. It would be interesting to 

 know the date of the last capture of the Polecat in Argyllshire. 

 CECIL H. BISHOPP, Oban. 



[Two specimens of the Polecat captured during the past year 

 in the Assynt district of Sutherland came under our notice, and 

 were examined by us. EDS.] 



Crested Tit in Lower Strathspey. In Messrs. Harvie-Brown's 

 and Buckley's " Moray " the Glen of Rothes is mentioned as the 



