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specimens undoubtedly came from weeds drifted off the 

 shore. This larva I take to be the species erroneously 

 described as a worm, Canipontia cruciforniis, by Dr Johnston 

 in British Non-parasitical Worms, 1865. The life-history is 

 similar to that of the preceding species. The flies, 2 mm. 

 long, are yellowish with brown markings on the thorax. 



A third species of Orthocladius larva with characteristic 

 blue markings occurs in a brackish pool which is at present 

 dried up. A Culicid and a Chironomid with four anal gills 

 were found in a brackish pool in 1914. 



I am indebted to Mr P. H. Grimshaw for the identification 

 of the flies. 



Ha"wflnch in Dumbartonshire. On 5th August I received 

 from Colonel Sir R. C Mackenzie a male Hawfinch {Coccothraustes 

 coccothraustes), a bird of the year, which was caught in a fruit net at 

 Camiseskan, Dumbartonshire, two days previously. This species 

 is, I believe, a new bird for the Clyde area. Charles Kirk, 

 Glasgow. 



Nesting of the Pied Flycatcher and Garden Warbler in 

 Ross-shire. On the 22nd of May 1919, as my son and a ghillie 

 were coming along the Blackwater River in the parish of Contin, 

 East Ross, they heard the singing of a bird which they did not 

 recognise. Two days later I visited the spot, heard the bird and 

 saw it a male Pied Flycatcher. The bird sang for a long time 

 and then suddenly became silent; this happened each time I 

 observed it. On the 25th, after watching the male for three hours, 

 we found the nest in a hole in a birch-tree 12 feet from the ground; 

 the male had sat where the nest was several times, but we did 

 not see the female till she flew out of the hole. Though the Pied 

 Flycatcher breeds in small numbers in Southern Scotland it is 

 most uncommon in the Highlands, and I know of only one other 

 breeding record in the Moray Area, namely in East Inverness in 

 1912. The nest found in East Ross, therefore, extends the birds' 

 breeding range in Scotland considerably north of any previous 

 record. I have also to report the breeding of the Garden Warbler 

 in the same parish, in the garden of the lodge in which I was 

 living. The nest was found on 24th May 1919, and on the 29th 

 it had four eggs. I had seen the bird there the previous summer, 

 and heard it singing as early as 5 a m., but failed to find the nest. 

 This is the first time the Garden Warbler has been found breeding 

 in Moray. D. J. Balfour Kirke, Burntisland. 



