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with light red, tipped, in some cases only, with reddish white, freckled 

 with brown ; wing coverts, particularly those of primaries, in some 

 cases very pale, with a peculiar greyish gloss which seemed to mask 

 the colour. Back, rump, and upper tail coverts dull wood brown 

 barred with yellowish brown, mottled towards tips with light red, 

 and broadly fringed with dull white freckled with dull brown. 

 Wing primaries reddish buff freckled on outer web with light red, 

 secondaries pale brown, outer webs freckled and barred with pale 

 red-brown, outer web of inner secondaries worn and frayed at tip 

 where exposed beyond coverts in closed wing, and strong evidence 

 of bleaching of both primaries and secondaries, the outline of the 

 one feather being imprinted on the under one by the fading of the 

 pale tints. Throat and foreneck pale ruddy yellow shading to 

 chestnut red in broad pectoral band, some feathers above band being 

 tipped with white and subterminally barred with dull brown. 

 Breast, flanks, and underparts, including under tail coverts, light red, 

 broadly tipped with ashy white and with subterminal bar of dull 

 brown. Tail feathers dark red brown mottled irregularly and barred 

 with dull brown and narrowly tipped with white. Feathering of feet 

 slightly paler than normal. Bill rather heavier in proportion to head 

 than in normal specimen. Patch of red bare skin over and behind 

 eye (at least this is indicated by pigment applied by the taxidermist 

 of whom confirmation has been requested). 



Differences between normal specimen and above, principally in 

 size, this bird being stunted the substitution of dark sepia brown 

 and brownish black by pale dull brown, barring of light red and 

 brownish yellow in place of ochre yellow (in normal plumage) and 

 the darker tint of the pectoral band. At some distance the general 

 tint is dull, pale cinnamon brown. 



The specimen has been presented to the Dundee Museum. 

 Henry Boase, Dundee. 



Limax flavus in Bute. I am indebted to Mr Louis P. W. 

 Renouf, of the Bute Laboratory and Museum, for an adult and 

 a half-grown example of this species, var. antiquorum, found at 

 Ardbeg, Rothesay, in a scullery, between box and wall, on the 

 evening of 2nd May 19 18 a species we have not before seen from 

 vice-county 100, Clyde Isles. May I ask for examples of this slug, 

 which is emphatically the "Cellar Slug" or "Yellow Slug," from 

 other places? It is strictly confined to human habitations, 

 cellars, outhouses, farmyards, and is very rarely found in the open 

 country. W. Denison Roebuck, 259 Hyde Park Road, 

 Leeds, 





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