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Bromus interruptus being treated as a variety of Aerrafalcus 

 mollis, nor in the citation of a name which Mr. Daydon 

 Jackson, Professor Hackel, and Dr. Otto Kuntze consider to be 

 invalid. The sands of Barry and the Ayrshire Botrychiums 

 are not included in the general text, the editors naturally 

 thinking that the records need confirmation. 



The reader will see from these scattered notes what an 

 interesting treat is afforded by the industry of the editors, 

 who have placed British botanists again under a sense of 

 deep obligation for their great and valuable addition to 

 British botany. 



OXFORD, November 1904. 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Scottish Lists of Vermin. In the "Annals" for July last 

 (p. 185) Mr. Harvie-Brown gives a list of vermin killed on the 

 Glengarry estates, Inverness- shire, between 1837 and 1840, with the 

 remark, " I think this list has not appeared before." As a matter 

 of fact it was published in 1850 in Knox's "Game-Birds and Wild- 

 Fowl," p. 117. Not only so, but Knox's list is fuller, and contains 

 the following species not mentioned in the " Annals " : Ospreys, 

 1 8 ; Common Buzzards, 285 ; Bluehawks or Peregrine Falcons, 98 ; 

 Orange - legged Falcons, 7; Hobbyhawks, n. The following 

 variations also occur : Merlins, 78, instead of 79 ; Hen Harriers, 

 83, instead of 63. The fact that Peregrines (98) are specifically 

 mentioned disposes of the suggestion in the " Annals " that 

 Goshawks (63) must be read Peregrines. By an apparent oversight 

 the Golden Owls (3), probably Barn Owls, as suggested by Knox, 

 have been omitted from the list given in the " Annals," though 

 mentioned in the comments thereon. It may be recollected that in 

 the "Annals" for 1875 (? I 93) Mr. Maclaine of Lochbuie com- 

 municated a list of vermin killed on the estates of Torosay and 

 Lochbuie, in the Island of Mull, in 1825. I can now give a much 

 older list of vermin killed in Aberdeenshire (1776-1786), which I 

 copied some years ago into one of my note - books from the 

 "London Chronicle" of iSth September 1812. It runs as 

 follows : 



" Previous to the year 1776 the destruction of sheep by ravenous 

 animals was so great in the wilds of Aberdeenshire as to be com- 

 puted to be equal in value to half the whole rents ; and the 



