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here to be preserved. The coat is glossy black, with no white 

 except half-a-dozen white hairs at the joint of the hip. The 

 measurements and characters correspond exactly with those of the 

 White or Mountain Hare. When cased it is to be sent to Langwell 

 House, Caithness. LEWIS DUNBAR, Thurso. 



Grampuses in the Solway. On 2yth July I was interested in 

 watching a herd of Grampuses (Orai gladiator] off Southerness 

 Point. There were certainly half-a-dozen animals in the drove, and 

 there might be a dozen, but, of course, they could not be seen all 

 at once, and we could only guess at the real number as they rose 

 and plunged on the surface of the waves at different spots. Some 

 of the beasts were fully adult, while others were only half-grown. 

 Salmon were plentiful in the Firth at the time, and doubtless these 

 Cetaceans had come up in pursuit. I did not see any salmon 

 myself rise in front, as they do when Porpoises and Grampuses are 

 after them, but 4 or 5 miles farther up the Firth some friends who 

 were watching them saw the salmon leaping frantically out of the 

 tide as the Grampuses came close upon them. It is an ordinary and 

 common sight to see Porpoises in the Solway often in considerable 

 herds but a sight of Grampuses up the Firth is a much rarer occur- 

 rence. These animals were upon this occasion quite as wary as 

 usual, keeping well out in the channel, and turning with the first of 

 the ebb, so as to avoid the ever-present possibility of being caught 

 aground on some of the great banks. R. SERVICE, Maxwelltown. 



Bird Notes from the Island of Coll. This spring, about the 

 roth April, when a field near the Castle at Coll was being ploughed, 

 four of the many Common Gulls (L. canns\ as usual, closely following 

 the plough, were killed or disabled by the tilth turned up by the 

 plough falling back on them. Colonel J. Lorn Stewart, the laird, went 

 to see the scene of this accident and the dead gulls. An old man 

 who had ploughed for many years in Coll informed me that he had 

 several times known single gulls killed in this manner, but never as 

 many as four. On the i2th June I saw, on the shore, a lot of 

 nine Sanderlings (Calidris arenaria). Eight of these were in perfect 

 summer plumage, the ninth very slightly so. They were very tame, 

 allowing me to watch them within about five yards' distance. The 

 above date is very late to observe these birds. Many Little Stints 

 (Tringa minutd) were about Crossapoll sands in April 1902. This 

 bird was not included in List of Birds observed in Coll (Annals 

 Scot. Nat. Hist., 1899, PP- 206-9). On the i5th June I saw a pair 

 of Yellow Hammers (Emberiza citronella), evidently nesting. This is 

 an addition to list of birds breeding in Coll. On the same day I 

 saw a single Arctic Tern (Sterna macntra} bully a Heron, which I 

 had flushed from the sea-shore. The Heron appeared to be in 

 abject terror, and, continually shrieking out its "crank, crank," came 



