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Dumortiera irrigua. Drepanolejeunea hamati- 

 Lophocolea spicata. folia. 



Colurolejeunea calyptrifolia. Marchesinia Mackaii. 



Cololejeunea minutissima. Jubula Hutchinsiae. 



Cololejeunea inicroscopica has been reported from Belgium. 



The Atlantic species are the most interesting of our 

 Hepaticae. They differ from our other groups, Northern, 

 Continental, and Mediterranean, in that their origin in our 

 country cannot be traced to any known geological period. 

 The peculiar British species, and some of the others, are 

 subtropical or tropical, or they have their nearest allied 

 forms in these regions. Further investigation will doubtless 

 alter our views on some of these species, and it is with 

 some hesitation that I have included the generally accepted 

 Atlantic species Gymnomitrium crenulatum and Herberta 

 adunca, as they have been recorded from Alaska. Perhaps 

 all the alpine Atlantic species may be found to be in a 

 different category from the species peculiar to sheltered 

 places on the low ground, but here as with other groups 

 there are always a few species which are difficult to classify. 



Some of the species mentioned in this paper will doubt- 

 less be differently grouped as our knowledge extends. Not 

 only are several of them minute, but their required conditions 

 prevent their occurrence being otherwise than local. 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Bat in Shetland. In the "Vertebrate Fauna of Shetland,' 1 

 published 1899, Messrs. Evans and Buckley state (p. 57) that "as 

 far back as 1774 Low mentions that Bats were seen in Unst, though 

 very rarely; and in 1806 John Laing . . . noticed them as inhabiting 

 the Shetlands : but in neither case was any species mentioned." As 

 this appears to be all that is known concerning the occurrence of 

 any of the Cheiroptera in the islands, it is interesting to record that in 

 January last a hibernating Bat was found in a peat stack at North 

 Roe, and was sent to Mr. Malloch of Perth, but was too far gone 

 for preservation. Mr. Malloch pronounced it to be of the " common 

 Short-eared species" [? V. pipistrellus\ JOHN S. TULLOCH, Lerwick. 



Jays in Argyllshire. When shooting with Colonel Brinckman 

 at Stonefield on the 6th instant, a Jay (G. glandaritts) was shot by 



