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Emphytus tener, Fall Common, Possil, Kenmuir ('76); Cadder, 

 Canniesburn, Bishopton ('78) ; Bonhill, J.R.M. 



carpini, Htg. Rare, Canniesburn ('76) ; Kenmuir, 

 Cadder ('78); Bonhill, J.R.M. 



grossularice, Htg. Strathaven, A.A.D. ('01); Bonhill, 

 J.R.M. 



Taxonus equiseti, Fall Common, Possil, Cadder ('76); Common, 

 Kelvinside, Clober, Bishopton, Paisley, Dairy (var. 

 coxalis, Kl.) ('78); Bonhill, J.R.M.; Eaglesham, 

 G.W.O. ; Crookston, A.A.D. ('01). 

 glabratus, Fall. Common, Possil, Bishopton ('76) ; Clober, 

 Cambuslang, Cadder ('78); Bonhill, J.R.M. ; Pirnmill, 

 A.F. ; Crookston, Brother Loch, A.A.D. ('01). 



T. glottianus, Cam., is said to be an aberrant from of E. tener. 



{To be continued.) 



NOTES. 



Badger in Dumfriesshire. It may interest the readers of 

 the Scottish Naturalist to learn that a female Badger was killed on 

 Quhytewoollen Hill, near Lockerbie House, on 9th July 19 13. 

 Hugh S. Gladstone, Thornhill. 



Bank Vole (Evotomys glareolus) in Renfrewshire. 



This rodent is mentioned as "little known "in the Fauna, Flora, 

 and Geology of the Clyde Area (British Association Committee, 1901), 

 and has always been regarded as rare in Renfrewshire. Not being 

 satisfied on this point, I recently caused my son to set traps in 

 suitable places near Paisley, with the result that specimens have 

 been repeatedly caught. The species is evidently fairly common 

 in this district, and is probably so elsewhere in the west. 

 C. A. Hall, Paisley. 



Richard's Pipit in Midlothian. I write to record the 

 appearance at Musselburgh of a specimen of that rare Eastern 

 species in Scotland, Richard's Pipit, which was captured on the 

 evening of 6th December. The bird was in an injured condition, 



