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came as far as she possibly could venture so as to be out of 

 reach of the heaviest winter sea. When newly born, the 

 young one is covered with a coat of yellowish fur, which in 

 a month or six weeks gives place to the short bristly hair 

 common to the adult. There were several births during my 

 first winter there, and I noticed that the young never 

 attempted to go near the sea until they were a month old. 

 In fact they seemed to keep as far away from it as possible. 

 I have thrown one into a pool, where it exhibited the most 

 abject signs of fear, gasping, and struggling to get out again. 

 It spends the whole day sleeping, except when the mother 

 pays it a visit. This she usually did once a day, taking 

 every precaution to see that no one was near, but in spite of 

 her watchfulness I have frequently got to within a dozen 

 yards of her to observe the feeding operation. She exhibited 

 the greatest symptoms of affection by fondling her offspring 

 with her flippers and keeping up a low crooning sound. 

 Now there are only about a dozen about the island, which 

 land occasionally on outlying rocks. 



DIPTERA SCOTICA: III. THE FORTH DISTRICT. 



By PERCY H. GRIMSHAW, F.E.S. 



( Continued from p. 33.) 



Family DOLICHOPODID^E. 



444. DOLICHOPUS ^ENEUS, Deg. Musselburgh (A. E. J. Carter). 



445. ARGYRA ARGENTINA, Mg. Aberfoyle, July 1903 (A. E. J. 



Carter). 



446. HYDROPHORUS NEBULOSUS, Fin. On wet spots, Currie Moor, 



9th April 1902, and Scenes Law, on wet peat, 3ist October 

 1903 (Wm. Evans). 



Family PIPUNCULID^E. 



447. CHALARUS SPURIUS, Fin. Gosford Park, 4th June 1896 



(P. H. G.). 



