ADDITIONS FOR 1906 TO CENSUS OF SCOTTISH HEPATIC/K 4 9 



112. SHETLAND. 



Cephaloziella bifida ") 



r v r / Sim. 



Lejeunea cavifoha y 



Marsupella Pearsoni ) . 



XT j- \ W. H. Beeby. 



Nardia compressa J 



Sphenolobus exsectaeformis ) T 



Scapania compacta } Fair Isle " Mlss 



INVERMOIDART, ACHARACLE, ARGYLLSHIRE. 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Lesser Shrew on Ailsa Craig. For some time a Shrew has 

 been known to inhabit Ailsa Craig, but the species had not been 

 determined, though it was thought most probably to be the Lesser 

 Shrew (Sorex pygmaus). Through the kindness of Mr. Thomson, 

 the principal lightkeeper on Ailsa Craig, I have received a single 

 specimen, which turns out to be Sorex pygmceus, as was expected. 

 This is the only specimen Mr. Thomson was able to catch, though 

 he has been trying for some time ; and in his letter which came 

 with the specimen he says, " These little animals seem to be dying 

 out here; at one time they used to be plentiful enough."- NORMAN 

 B. KINNEAR, Edinburgh. 



Common Shrew at Dunnet Head. The Common Shrew (Sorex 

 araneits) has already been recorded as common in Caithness, but 

 perhaps it is worth while mentioning that I trapped a single example 

 on Dunnet Hill last October. It is thus interesting to note that 

 while the Common Shrew is found in the very north of the mainland, 

 as Dunnet Hill is about one and a half miles off the most northerly 

 point, yet it does not extend across the Pentland Firth, the 

 Lesser Shrew (Sorex pygmceies) being the only species of Shrew 

 known with certainty to occur in Orkney. NORMAN B. KINNEAR, 

 Edinburgh. 



Wild Cats in N.-W. Highlands and Skye. My friend, Mr. 

 Osgood H. Mackenzie of Inverewe, Poolewe, West Ross-shire, writing 

 to me under date of i4th November 1906, says: "My stalker has 

 trapped two half-sized Wild Cats, quite pure bred, we believe. They 

 were not injured. Wild Cats are on the increase here owing to no 

 trapping in forests."- -J. A. HARVIE-BROWN. 



Bird Notes from Shetland. At 10.15 P - M - on X 4 tn September 

 I heard a considerable number of Terns calling, passing overhead, 

 and apparently going in a southerly direction ; and others were heard 

 again on the 2oth calling overhead, 10 P.M., and also going south. 



On 3rd and 4th October a Swallow was seen at Bressay. 



On the yth a Bullfinch, presumably belonging to the large 

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