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Bird Notes from the Montrose District. On Wednesday, 

 1 6th October 191S, a Leachs Fork-tailed Petrel was found on the 

 Brae of Dun, about 5 miles west of here. It was brought into the 

 local museum and was in good condition, and had apparently not 

 been long dead. 



On nth October we had a pretty large migration of Golden 

 Crested Wrens the bushes and trees in my garden were practically 

 alive with them during the whole day but since that date I have 

 neither seen nor heard any others. 



Up to the present no geese have arrived, but undoubtedly since 

 this was made an aviation centre they have not been in anything 

 like the numbers that they were before the war. R. W. Thomas 

 Ewart, M.B., Montrose. 



Curlew-Sandpiper in Kirkcudbrightshire. On 19th 

 September 1 918 two Curlew-Sandpipers were shot near Carsethorn 

 (Kirkcudbrightshire) by Mr Robert M'Call, who in his long 

 experience had never met with the species before. One of the 

 birds was sent to Tullie House Museum, Carlisle. The Curlew- 

 Sandpiper is a scarce visitor to the Solway on the autumn 

 migration. Hugh Gladstone, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire. 



Caithness Slugs. Under the direct inspiration of my friend 

 Miss Jane Gowan, Miss K. Duffus, then at Canisbay near Wick, 

 three miles from John o' Groats, sent me a welcome consignment 

 of Sluss gathered there on 22nd August 191S. It included a half- 

 "Town example of the dark northern form (var. alpcstris) of Umax 

 arbor urn, and a small, one-eighth grown specimen of the type ; 

 numerous small AgrioHmax agrestis, both type and var. reticuta 

 a small A Ho a suhfuscus var. /;.. a ; and a couple of young A. 

 drcumscriptus. The two latter species are new authentications for 

 Caithness, and the last-named completes the Census for the species 

 for Scotland. I hope my friends who are in a position to help me 

 with Scottish molluscs, especially from out-of-the-way localities, 

 will further assist in the working out. W. Denison Roebuck, 259 

 Hyde Park Road, Leeds. 



Faceted Hairworm. Parachordodes violaceus (Baird). in 

 Ayrshire. In July of this year a male specimen of this Hairworm, 

 found in a pool on the Bigholm Hill, Beith, Ayrshire, was brought 

 to me for identification. The only specimen from the Clyde area, 

 recorded in Dr James Ritchie's monograph of Scottish Hairworms, 

 was found in Lanarkshire. John Ritchie, jun., Beith. 



