INSECTS AND OTHER TERRESTRIAL INVERTEBRATES 259 



INSECTS AND OTHER TERRESTRIAL INVERTE- 

 BRATES FROM THE BASS ROCK. 



By WlLLIAM_EVANS, F.R.S.E. 



The well-known volume on The Bass Rock, published in 

 December 1847, whilst devoted chiefly to the civil and 

 ecclesiastic history of the renowned stronghold, contains 

 accounts of the Geology, the Botany, and the Zoology of 

 the Bass by Hugh Miller, Prof. J. H. Balfour, and the 

 Rev. Dr John Fleming respectively. Fleming's article is 

 devoted entirely to the Birds that breed on the Rock, the 

 Solan Goose or Gannet receiving the lion's share of 

 attention. Incidentally he alludes to the " Coulterneb " 

 (Puffin) having " here to carry on a warfare with intruding 

 rabbits," the " recent introduction of a colony " of which is 

 also referred to by Hugh Miller (p. 88) in connection with 

 the sea-beet and the Bass mallow they have, he writes, 

 " of late very sensibly diminished the numbers of both." 

 Besides the Blackbird, Pied Wagtail, Rock Pipit (I have 

 myself found the nests of these on the Bass), Jackdaw 

 (colony in the sixties), and Storm Petrel (stated to have 

 nested in 1904), all of which are additions to Fleming's 

 list, there are the passing migrants, winter and occasional 

 visitors to take account of. A list of these can be culled 

 from the writings of MacGillivray, Robert Gray, Booth, and 

 others, and latterly from the lighthouse records contributed 

 to the Reports on Scottish Ornithology. At one time or 

 another the following have come under my own notice on 

 the Rock, viz., Hooded Crow, Goldcrest, Whitethroat, 

 Willow Warbler, Song Thrush, Redstart, Robin, Wheatear, 

 Hedge-sparrow, Wren, Pied Flycatcher, Redshank, and 

 Turnstone ; while, from the lighthouse, there have been sent 

 to me, inter alia, a Cole Tit and a Missel Thrush. In a 

 paper published in the Proceedings of the Royal Physical 

 Society (vol. xvi., 1905), I have dealt with "The Black-backs 

 of the Bass." 



