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Stonechat nesting in King's Park, Edinburgh. Some- 

 time in June last I noted that a pair of Stonechats had evidently 

 settled down to breed in the King's Park ; they kept the secret 

 of their nest perfectly secure from the public. On the forenoon 

 of 30th July I saw the male bird in a great state of excitement; 

 three young ones that apparently had just left the nest were 

 fluttering about the whin-tops round about him. This is the 

 first occasion I have seen Stonechats in the Park, and it is interesting 

 that they successfully hatched out. William Serle, Duddingston. 



[On 2nd April 191 6 I observed three pairs of Stonechats on 

 the south-east side of Arthur's Seat (King's Park), and subsequent 

 observations convinced me that two of them were nesting. The 

 third pair was not again seen. I have also a personal note to 

 the effect that a pair nested there in 1884. So long ago as 

 May 1807, Patrick Neill recorded in the Scots Magazine that 

 both Stonechats and Wheatears bred annually in the King's 

 Park. For several years past one or two pairs of Stonechats 

 have nested regularly on the Braid Hills, a locality in which they 

 have long been known to occur. It was there that in May 1866 

 I discovered my first Stonechat's nest. The Stonechat is an early 

 breeder; in 1902 I found a nest with four eggs, on 7th April, 

 at the foot of the Pentlands near Lothianburn. W. E.] 



Easterness Mollusca Miss J. Gowan has collected, during 

 a few days' stay at Inverness, the following molluscs: *Limax 

 maximus, at foot of a wall near the Annfield Road, Inverness, a 

 half-grown example of the var. punctata, 1st October; two young 

 Hyalinia alliaria, a few H pura var. margaritacea, a few H. 

 crystallina, all under stones, and one H.fulva amongst dead leaves, 

 all in wood near Glendruie, 4th October; numerous specimens of a 

 small thin-shelled form of *Ancyius fluviatilis in Mill Burn near 

 Inverness, a couple of * Carychium minimum, one * Punctual 

 pygmcBum and one young Cochlicopa lubrica, in moss under nettles, 

 and a couple of young Hyalinia alliaria, all by the Mill Burn, 5th 

 October; one *Helicella caperata and one adult and one young 

 Helix hortensis at foot of wall, Culduthill Road, Inverness, 8th 

 October 191 7 ; the five starred species are additions to my Easterness 

 list of May 19 16, but there are various others which still await their 

 discoverer. Meanwhile we are indebted to Miss Gowan for taking 

 such excellent advantage of a short stay in Inverness. W. Denison 

 Roebuck, 259 Hyde Park Road, Leeds. 



