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Inverness-shire. Mr H. B. Johnston records, on p. 259 of 

 the journal just referred to, the capture of three specimens 

 on Meal-na-Cuaich, on 1st July, at a height of 3000 feet. 

 This is one of the highest hills in the neighbourhood of 

 Dalwhinnie, and altogether about ten specimens of this 

 handsomest of the British Bot-flies were seen. Perhaps 

 we may remind our readers that the first Inverness-shire 

 specimen was recorded by one of ourselves (see Ann. Scot. 

 Nat., 1896, p. 61). An interesting confirmation of an old 

 record is to be found in Dr M. Cameron's note in the December 

 number of the same journal (p. 275), on the capture of seven 

 specimens of the Beetle AtJieta hybrida, Sharp, in Dalmeny 

 Park, near Edinburgh, on 4th November. The species was 

 originally described from specimens taken near Edinburgh, 

 and has not, we believe, been since captured until its 

 re-discovery two months ago. Other records of Beetles 

 worthy of mention are given on p. 257 {op. cit.) by Mr James 

 W. Munro, who mentions the occurrence of Cryptorrhynchus 

 lapathi, L., in Aberdeenshire, and Magdalis carbonaria, L., in 

 Morayshire. On the following page the same author writes 

 on the Beetles " Rhagium bifasciatuiu, F., attacking birch, 

 etc.," and Rhabdophaga albipennis, Houard, in Aberdeenshire. 

 Ornithologists will learn with interest that a Swallow, 

 ringed as a nestling by Mr R. O. Blyth at Skelmorlie, 

 Ayrshire, on 27th July 191 2, was captured at Riet Vallei, 

 Orange River Colony, on the 16th March 191 3. This 

 record, which is given in the November number of British 

 Birds, is specially instructive, since it affords information 

 as to where some of our British summer birds pass the 

 winter a long-felt desideratum. From the same source we 

 learn that a second British specimen of the Yellow-breasted 

 Bunting (Emberiza aureola) was procured at Cley, Norfolk, 

 on 4th September, and a Rufous Warbler {Agrobates galactotes), 

 another very rare visitor to the British Isles, at Brede, 

 Sussex, on 21st September. In the same journal it is 

 recorded that a Green Sandpiper {Totanus ocrophus) was 

 seen at Evie in Orkney on 7th August. The occurrence of 

 a rare bird in the Outer Hebrides is mentioned in Country 

 Life for 21st November. It is there recorded that a Carolina 



