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ADDITIONS TO SCOTT AND LINDSAY'S LIST 

 OF ANIMALS FOUND IN THE UPPER ELF 



LOCH. 



By WILLIAM EVANS, F.R.S.E. 



MESSRS. Scott and Lindsay's excellent paper on the 

 'Upper Elf Loch,' Braid Hills, published in the Transac- 

 tions of the Edinburgh Naturalists' Field Club for 1897-98 

 (vol. iii. pp. 276-287, and 369-384), having created an 

 interest in the fauna of that pond, it is well that the list 

 should be made as full as possible. With this view, I am 

 induced to record the following 47 species taken by myself, 

 and not given in the paper referred to. When necessary, 

 specimens have been submitted to experts, whose kind 

 assistance will be individually acknowledged in other papers 

 upon which I am engaged. 



Furcularia forficula (Ehr.). This rotifer was detected by Mr. James 

 Murray in material I sent him in June last. 



Polycelis nigra (Ehr.). A somewhat pale form of this common fresh- 

 water Planarian is abundant in the pond, and is probably the 

 "flat-worm" referred to by Scott and Lindsay. 



Stylaria lacustris (L.). Common, especially so in May and June 

 1905. 



Lumbriculus variegatus (Mull.). Taken in some numbers in October 

 1904, and again this spring. This and the Stylaria are the 

 only Oligochsets I have found in the pond. 



Glossiphonia stagnalis (L.). A few examples of this small leech were 

 obtained this spring. 



