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stink," but that as it' was only a small animal, and it would 

 be an " awkward business " to get it out, he advised leaving 

 the corpse where it was, for the smell " wouldn't last more 

 than a week." But for that week, and somewhat longer, we 

 might have quoted that oft-used inscription on tombstones, 

 " In death he was not forgotten," with much more sincerity 

 than the relations of some deceased people feel when they have 

 it inscribed ! 



Late Singing of the Missel- thrush. On the evening of 

 7th June 191 7 I heard a Missel-thrush in full song near Cathcart. 

 Twice only before have I heard the spring song of this species after 

 May was out on 3rd June 1898, near Kames Castle in Bute, and 

 on 6th June 1908 at Braidwood, Lanarkshire. Seebohm says that 

 the Stormcock, " unlike all his congeners, performs the duties of 

 breeding in silence." Such is not the case in "Clyde," where it is 

 usually heard to best advantage about the end of April, in the very 

 height of its breeding season. John Robertson. 



Campodea fragilis, Mein., in Scotland (Forth). When 

 Prof. Carpenter and I prepared the short list of Forth Thysanura 

 (Bristle-tails) published in the Proceedings of the Royal Physical 

 Society in 1899 (xiv., p. 260), only one species of Campodea was 

 recognised as British, namely C. slaphylinus, Westw., to which all 

 our specimens were referred. Now, according to Mr R. S. Bagnall 

 {Ent. Mo. Mag., Sept. 191 5), it is known that five or six species 

 occur in this country. One of them is C. fragilis, Meinert, and the 

 purpose of this note is to record its presence in Scotland. On 19th 

 May 1 9 14 I was collecting on the Isle of May. ' On pulling back 

 the turf at the foot of the wall enclosing the south garden a colony 

 of a species of Campodea was brought to light. The three examples 

 secured in all nine or ten were seen seemed to differ from the 

 common form in their yellower colour and other respects. In 

 Lubbock's Monograph (1873) only two species of this genus, C. 

 staphylinus and C. fragilis, are given, and to the latter my Isle of 

 May specimens were provisionally referred. They have recently 

 been examined by Mr Bagnall, who writes me that they are C. fragilis, 

 Meinert. William Evans, Edinburgh. 



