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me that last year both the Pochard (Fuligula ferina) and Tufted 

 Duck (Fuligula cristatd) bred in Hoy. This year the Pochard again 

 bred in the same place, but the female seems to have been killed, as 

 the nest, with four eggs and one dead newly hatched young bird, was 

 found deserted. Though we are certain that this bird has bred 

 before in another locality in Orkney, this is the first recorded nest 

 actually seen. T. E. BUCKLEY, Inverness. 



Char in Loeh Lomond. Surgeon -General Bidie has the im- 

 pression that the Char (Sal/no alpimts) exists in Loch Lomond. I 

 have fished in that loch regularly for forty years, not on odd days, 

 but for months, and have been present at innumerable draughts of 

 the net, large mesh and small, and have besides, for scientific 

 purpose, searched the bays and backwaters with an eight -inch 

 rneshed net, without having met with this fish. Over and above 

 this personal experience, any unusual fish taken in the loch is 

 generally referred to me, and, so far, Sal/no alpinus has not shown 

 himself. This evidence is, of course, only negative, and it is quite 

 possible that the fish is here, although I have failed to come across 

 it ; but more trustworthy evidence than your correspondent offers is 

 necessary to establish its presence. Some eighteen or twenty years 

 ago several hundred American brook trout, which I understand to be 

 Char, were turned into the Finlas, a stream about a mile distant 

 from the Fruin, and the fish reported (if not merely an abnormally 

 coloured trout) may have been one of these. A notice of this 

 introduction will be found at page 82 of my contribution to the 

 " Guide to the Natural History of Loch Lomond." The reference 

 to Loch Dochart is quite irrelevant ; that loch belongs to a different 

 water system, which discharges into the German Ocean. ALFRED 

 BROWN, Luss. 



Testacella seutulum and Stenogyra goodalii in Stirling-shire. 

 -Testacella scutnlum is found in the gardens at Brentham Park, 

 Stirling. Mr. Bruce, the gardener, told me some time ago that he 

 had often seen them crawling about in the hothouses and borders 

 outside of them. Mr. Bruce protects them with a zealous care, 

 knowing well their carnivorous nature. I got one specimen from 

 him in June 1894, and two since that date. 



Stenogyra goodalii is an inhabitant of the orchid-houses at 

 Sauchie. I got several specimens from Mr. M'Connachie, the 

 gardener, in January last. The question arises, How did these 

 alien snails come to have a habitat in the orchid-houses, which are 

 only two or three years erected, and not found in any of the other 

 houses? Their eggs must have been introduced along with, and 

 adhering to, the orchids. G. M'DouGALL, Stirling. 



Euehloe cardamines in Moray. In the "Annals" for 1894, p. 

 183, I mentioned the appearance of this butterfly in the valley of 

 the burn of Aberlour on 24th May. I observed some fine specimens 



