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Otter near Musselburgh. From the Scotsman of 5th April 

 we learn that Mr Edwin Alexander, R.S.A., whose house and studio 

 are between Musselburgh Links and the river Esk, found in his 

 toolhouse the dead body of a dog otter, measuring 37 inches from 

 nose to tail tip. About a fortnight ago an otter was chased by boys 

 in the Esk, and injured in the back by a heavy stone. 



Prehistoric Antlers of Elk and Red Deer in Perthshire. 

 Henry Coates supplements the note published in the Scottish 

 Naturalist (1917, p- 135) by a more detailed history of the discovery 

 of an Elk antler found in a marl moss at Methven, in Perthshire. 

 An excellent photograph of the antler illustrates the paper. In the 

 same neighbourhood also, in 1841, were found the royal antlers and 

 skull of a large Red Deer. Both these and the Elk horns are 

 preserved in the hall of Methven Castle {Proc. Perths. Soc. Nat. 

 Sci., vol. vi., 1918, pt. 4, p. 1). 



Recovery of Marked Birds. In British Birds, December 

 191 7, records are published of a Starling ringed in Lincolnshire in 

 January 19 14, reported from near Bergen, Norway, June 191 7; a 

 Tree-pipit ringed near Shrewsbury in June 19 14, reported from 

 District Braga, Portugal, September 1916; and a Pied Wagtail 

 ringed in Surrey in May 1916, reported from Gironde, France, 

 March 19 17. In addition to these there are a good many other 

 interesting records. 



Chough in the Cheviots in Early Times. W. J. Rutherfurd 

 makes an ingenious attempt to prove that the three "martlets" on 

 the coat-of-arms of Rutherfurd are Choughs, and that their presence 

 there indicates that Choughs were common in the Cheviot range 

 when the heraldic device came into use {Hist. Berwick. F. Club, vol. 

 23, 1917, p. 201). 



Fishes of Berwickshire. In a first paper on the " Fishes of 

 Northumberland and the Eastern Borders," George Bolam collects 

 scattered records of many fishes which have occurred in south-east 

 Scotland. His first contribution concludes with an interesting 

 account of Tweed Salmon {Hist. Berwick. F. Club, vol. 23, 191 7, 

 p. 186). 



Apion {Erythrapion) miniatum Germ, in Scotland. In the 

 Entomologists' 1 Monthly Magazine for March 19 18 (p. 64), William 



