248 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



105. WEST Ross. 

 Subularia aquatica, E. S. Salmon (personal authority). 



109. CAITHNESS. 

 (Records by F. J. Hanbury.} 



Carex pelia, O. F. Lang, sp. 



x C. ^^m\\\^Ar.Benn. C. aquatilis x kattegatensis, sp. (1887). 



112. SHETLAND. 



Holcus mollis (" requirecTconfirmation "). ) . , 

 Ophioglossum ambiguum. J 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Daubenton's Bat in Argyleshire. I am pleased to be able to 

 add a new locality to the somewhat limited list of places this Bat is 

 known to frequent in Scotland. Kinlochaline Castle is situated at the 

 head of Loch Aline, an inlet from the Sound of Mull, in the district of 

 Morvern, Argyleshire. It is one of the best preserved old buildings 

 in the Highlands, and, standing on a rocky eminence, it is an ideal 

 place for the Bat and the Owl. For several years in the long 

 summer nights I had often watched the Bats coming out from their 

 retreat in the old castle to flit up and down the course of the river 

 Aline or skim over the surface of the loch. The only species I had 

 been able to identify up to this year were the Pipistrelle and the 

 Long-eared Bat. On the i3th of June, while going through the 

 castle, I noticed a crevice in the lintel of one of the windows which 

 showed unmistakable evidence of the presence of Bats. There 

 seemed no prospect of getting at them until I thought of trying the 

 effect of smoke. Applying a match to a few scraps of paper which 

 I pushed into the crevice, smoke soon began to issue from various 

 cracks in the wall, and there was an immediate scramble among the 

 Bats to get out. I soon caught as many as I wanted with my hands 

 as they emerged from their retreat, and I then saw I had got some- 

 thing new to me. To ensure a correct identification, I forwarded 

 half a dozen by post to Mr. William Evans, Edinburgh, and he pro- 

 nounced them Vespertilio daubentoni. This Bat is not mentioned 

 in Messrs. Harvie-Brown and Buckley's "Fauna of Argyll." CHAS. 

 CAMPBELL, Dalmeny Park. 



