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248. Rhaphium longicorne, Fall., Loch Assynt, 3rd June 191 1. 



249. Porphyrops crassipes, Mg., and $ , Loch Assynt, 5th June 



1911; The Mound, 17th June 1904; Golspie, 10th June 



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250. P. riparia, Mg., Tongue (Verrall). 



251. Sytitormon zelleri, Lw., Loch Assynt, 17th and 18th June 



1911; Lochinver, 21st and 30th June 1911; Inveran, 12th 

 July 18S6 (Verrall); Golspie, 22nd June 1904. Not 

 uncommon sitting on boulders in the bed of the Tarragill 

 River at Inchnadamph, but almost impossible to catch 

 either by striking or by sweeping when in this situation, 

 while if an attempt be made to put a tube over the 

 insect, I know no fly more alive to the psychological moment 

 at which to move off; however, the mickle made the muckle, 

 and I gleaned fourteen specimens in all. 



{To be continued.) 



NOTES. 



Male Pied Flycatcher at a last year's nesting site. I 



recorded in this magazine at the time, how a pair of Pied Flycatchers 

 {Muscicapa atricapilld) had nested in East Lothian in May 191 1. 

 Anxious to see if they would return to the same site, I visited the 

 spot on 2nd May 1912, and to my surprise found the male already 

 there though judging by the fragmentary nature of his "song," I 

 should say that he had very lately arrived. He was so tame that I 

 risked setting up my camera, and I got two photographs of him as he 

 perched on the edge of the nesting-hole, into which he thrice brought 

 nesting material while I watched. But no female was to be seen, 

 though I waited more than three hours. Before I left, I lowered an 

 electric bulb into the cavity and saw that a fair beginning had been 

 made with nest-building. (I removed all the old nest in 191 1 after 

 the young had flown.) I returned on 10th May and found the male 

 still alone. The nest had not been added to since my previous 

 visit. I revisited the spot on 13th May and found the male in full 

 song, and very anxiously driving away a pair of Blue Tits which 

 often approached his nesting-hole ; while the sight of a Squirrel in 



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