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Bennett, in his letter to me, raises the question in what vice- 

 county Glenfalloch should be placed. He says that some Botanists 

 put it in Mid-Perth and others in West Perth. In my judgment 

 the definition of these two vice-counties by Watson excludes it from 

 both. Mid-Perth, according to him, is strictly confined to part of 

 the basin of the Tay, West Perth to part of the basin of the Forth. 

 Glenfalloch drains into the Clyde and ought therefore to go into 

 Dumbarton. This was also the opinion of the late Dr. B. White, 

 and in his flora of Perthshire he makes Glenfalloch a separate 

 division by the name of " Lomond " because it drains into Loch 

 Lomond. Watson would seem to have overlooked this little corner 

 of Perthshire, or not to have attended to its drainage. Maps in his 

 time were not what they are now. It strengthens the argument 

 for joining Glenfalloch to Dumbarton when we consider that this is 

 the only part of Perthshire where Canon verticil/alum, a distinctly 

 western plant, is found. W. B. 



Late Flowering- of Anehusa sempervirens. In the course of 

 a walk on 8th November, I noted a considerable number of 

 plants of this species in flower near Hillend. The plants were not 

 so luxuriant as earlier in the year, some being over a foot high. 

 JAMES WATERSTON, Edinburgh. 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



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ZOOLOGY. 



LATE OCCURRENCE OF SWIFT AND CUCKOO IN SCOTLAND. 

 J. W. Payne. Zoologist, September 1903, pp. 350-351. Swifts 

 seen on 23rd August and Cuckoo heard on ist July. 



CUCKOO (CUCULUS CANORUS) IN SCOTLAND : CALLING IN JULY. 

 Hugh Boyd Watt. Zoologist, October 1903, p. 391. Heard up to 

 9th July in Braemar. 



WATER-HEN CAUGHT AT SEA. A. C. Smith. The field, November 

 7, 1903, p. 803. A specimen captured by one of the Dundee 

 trawlers sixty-five miles east of the Bell Rock. 



SABINE'S SNIPE AT MULL. W. A. Churchman. The Field, 

 5th December 1903, p. 962. A specimen shot on an island off 

 Mull on 26th November. 



