ZOOLOGICAL NOTES 53 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Wild Cat in Argyllshire. A fine male true Wild Cat (Felis 

 catits) was trapped in the first week in January 1903 by Hu rr h 

 Cameron at Arasaig, and is now in my possession at Dunipace. 

 J. A. HARVIE-BROWN. 



Pine Marten in Sutherland. A male Marten Cat (Mustela 

 martes) is reported to me, as obtained on the Scourie shootings, 

 Eddrachyllis, Sutherland, trapped by the gamekeeper thereon iyth 

 November 1903, and sent in the flesh to Air. Kirk, Sauchiehall 

 Street, Glasgow. J. A. HARVIE-BROWN. 



Badger in Linlithgowshire and Stirling-shire. I have received 

 for preservation two specimens of the Badger (Meles meles). The 

 first from Williamscraig, Linlithgow, on i5th July; and the second 

 from Rowardennan on Loch Lomondside. Both were taken in 

 rabbit-traps. CHAS. KIRK, Glasgow. [There is a colony of Badgers 

 at Williamscraig, probably an offshoot from Dalmeny. EDS.] 



Occurrences of the Great Grey Shrike (Lanius excubitor). 

 CAITHNESS. A fine male specimen was obtained at Keiss during 

 the past autumn, which I have preserved and added to my collection. 

 -JAMES SUTHERLAND, West Banks. 



WEST ROSS-SHIRE. On the i2th November I saw a Great Grey 

 Shrike. It rose off the ground, where it was being attacked by a 

 pair of Meadow Pipits, and settled on the telegraph wires above 

 my head, and flitted along in front of me for some distance. 

 OSGOOD H. MACKENZIE, Poolewe. 



MORAY.- A specimen was shot in the garden at Gordon Castle. 

 Fochabers, on yth November. There were two in the garden at the 

 time, and the gardener saw one of them attacking a Blackbird in a 

 plum tree. GEORGE C. MUIRHEAD, Fochabers. 



One was captured alive at Duffus early in November, and kept 

 in a cage and fed readily on mice. It did not long survive, and 

 was sent to me by Mr. Wm. Ogg on the nth of November, and 

 proved to be a bird of the year. J. A. HARVIE-BROWN. 



One has been flying about in the garden here for the past week. 

 It appears to have only a single white bar on the wings. W. STEUART 

 MENZIES, Craig Ellachie, December 22. 



SHETLAND. One was observed at Halligarth, Unst, on the i5th 

 October, in the act of devouring a Redbreast ; and one, presumably 

 the same bird, was seen in the neighbourhood on the igth and 2oth. 

 T. EDMONDSTON SAXBY, Balta Sound, Shetland. 



Waxwing in Forfarshire. -A VVaxwing (Ampelis garni/us) was 

 brought to me on October 30, shot at Tarry, a mile from Arbroath. 



