120 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Green Sandpiper in Renfrewshire. On the nth of December 

 1904 I observed a Green Sandpiper (Totanus ochropus} on the 

 banks of an old clay hole pond at Hangingshaw, just within the south- 

 eastern boundary of the City of Glasgow. It was hard frost at the 

 time and the bird remained there all day, but was gone by the next 

 morning, when the frost had also disappeared. In flight the white 

 rump and upper tail coverts contrasted strongly with the dark- 

 coloured back. This species has occurred before in Renfrewshire, 

 one having been shot and another seen in its company at Pollok on 

 the Cart on the loth of November 1868. (Gray, " Birds of the West 

 of Scotland," p. 293). ROBERT and H. W. WILSON, Glasgow. 



Sturgeon in the Shetland Seas. Some little time ago a strange 

 fish was found on the shore at the Island of Trondra, near 

 Scalloway. Unfortunately it was cut up by the finder and cast upon 

 a refuse heap ; but the Fishery Officer heard about it and rescued 

 some of its scales and sent them to Dr. Scott, of the Fishery Board, 

 who identified them as those of a Sturgeon (Acipenser stitrio). The 

 only previous reference relating to the occurrence of this fish in the 

 Shetland Seas is contained in Edmondston's "View of the Zetland 

 Islands" (ii. p. 305), wherein it is stated: "Tradition says that this 

 fish has been seen in Zetland, but I question much the accuracy of 

 the assertion." Thus this appears to be the first authentic record 

 of the occurrence of this singular fish in Shetland waters. JOHN S. 

 TULLOCH, Lerwick. 



Spiders from the Flannan Isles. Mr. Eagle Clarke has handed 

 me, for identification, two spiders he captured on the Flannan Isles, 

 Outer Hebrides, in September last. They are : Trochosa terricola, 

 Thor. (an ad. 9 )> an d Drassus troglodytes, C.L.K. (a $\ The 

 former species is common and very widely distributed in Scotland ; 

 among the northern localities from which it has been recorded are 

 Aviemore, Sutherland, and Orkney. The Drassid is apparently less 

 common, and has not previously been recorded from further north 

 than Aberdeen, Aviemore, and Oban. In view of the outlying 

 position of the Flannans, these records are of much interest. 

 WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



Spiders from " Upper Forth." During the last five years I 

 have taken the following spiders in the upper portion of the Forth 

 area. They are all additions to the " Upper Forth " list given in a 

 paper by Prof. Carpenter and myself in the "Annals" for 1897; 

 and some of them are also additions to my Perthshire list in " Trans- 

 actions Perthshire Soc. Nat. Sc.," 1900. Specimens have been sub- 

 mitted to Rev. O. P. Cambridge for authentication. 

 Hahnia nava (Bl.). Aberfoyle, July 1900, ad. 9 

 Asagena phalerata (Panz.). Adults, especially males, common 

 on a sunny bank at Balquhidder, August 1902. 



