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a few Ring Ouzels (T. torqitatus) and Blackbirds (T. mendd). 

 Redbreasts (Erithacus rubectild) still here (4th May), but not so 

 numerous. JAMES TOMISON. 



[The head of a young Crane was obligingly sent by Mr. 

 Tomison for our inspection. EDS.] 



Callophrys (Theela) rubi (Linn.} in Fife. My son and I saw 



the Green Hairstreak Butterfly on 28th May last on Kemback Hill, 

 near Cupar. A considerable number of individuals were on the 

 wing, and these were in good condition. As we know little of the 

 principles which regulate distribution of species, it is possibly 

 worthy of note that the best place for this Butterfly near Elgin, 

 where I formerly found it, was the heather on Quarry wood Hill, 

 which, as its name indicates, is a hill largely composed of sandstone 

 quarried for building purposes. The hill at Kemback has an 

 exactly similar character, and adjoins the famous fossiliferous 

 deposit at Dura Den. On both hills the Green Tiger Beetle 

 (Cidndela campestris) is also found, though far more frequently 

 than the Butterfly. HENRY H. BROWN, Cupar-Fife. 



Roneus Cambridgii, L.K., in Argyllshire. While collecting at 

 Taynuilt on 2ist April I took on the under side of a piece of 

 granite tightly embedded a false scorpion quite new to me. On 

 referring the specimen to Mr. Robert Godfrey, it was determined as 

 a Roneus, but species uncertain. In this Mr. Wm. Evans con- 

 curred. Accordingly the specimen was sent to the Rev. O. Pickard- 

 Cambridge, who pronounced it to be R. Cambridgii, L.K. The 

 difficulty in determining the species arose from the fact that Mr. 

 Godfrey's specimens (from Taycreggan) were immature. JAMES 

 WATERSTON, Edinburgh. 



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The Alien Flora of Britain. As all that have sought to work 

 out the flora of any part of Britain must soon learn from personal 

 observation, there are many species that clearly owe their place in 

 our islands to human agency, while it is often most difficult to 

 determine the true rank of others from this point of view. The list 

 even of undoubted aliens is large, and includes many species that 

 find a place in floras, often without remark. Mr. S. T. Dunn, B.A., 

 F.L.S., as the result of continued study of these aliens, has prepared 

 and issued a list of "all presumably non-indigenous species hitherto 

 recorded as growing spontaneously in the British Isles ; and secondly, 

 all those species which, though probably natives, have so far been 

 exclusively or chiefly recorded in floras in their non- indigenous 

 localities." This list, it is stated by Mr. Dunn, is " merely a 



