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were on 15th March, but in 1907, 1909, and 1910 I did not 

 observe any until early in April. H. W. Robinson, Lancaster. 



Whimbrel in the Forth District in January. I examined 

 one of a pair of Whimbrel {Numenius phce.opus) which had been 

 shot from among a flock of Curlews, at Long Green Bay, to the 

 west of Cramond, on the 28th of January last. Bruce Campbell, 

 Edinburgh. 



Seal Louse (Echinophthirius phocae) from a Com- 

 mon Seal in the West of Scotland. In 18S6 I found 

 numbers of this parasite on a Common Seal which died in the 

 Rothesay aquarium, where it had been kept in captivity for some 

 time. The specimens were laid aside unnamed, and more or 

 less forgotten, till I saw Mr Evans's recent paper on Anoplura in 

 the " Proceedings " of the Royal Physical Society, when the 

 creature was at once recognised from the figure there given. I 

 have looked out the specimens, and send one or two of them 

 with this note. Thomas Scott, Aberdeen. 



[The examples sent by Dr Scott, though immature, undoubtedly 

 belong to this species. Eds.] 



Two rare Annelids (Helodrilus oculatus, Hoffm., and 

 Pridericia polychseta, Bret.) from Linlithgowshire. On 



14th February last I found Helodrilus oculatus in considerable 

 numbers in the mud of a small ditch on the Linlithgowshire 

 side of the river Almond above Cramond ferry. Among those 

 taken and sent to the Rev. Hilderic Friend there was, he tells me, 

 one adult example. In my paper on the Oligochasta (Earth-worms 

 and their allies) of the Forth Area, published in Proc. Roy. Phys. 

 Soc, 1 910, the species was recorded from one or two localities in 

 Mid-Lothian only, and since then it has been discovered in England 

 and Ireland. 



Besides the above, I sent to Mr Friend a number of other 

 Oligochates collected the same day, also on the west bank of 

 the Almond, but chiefly under the bark on very rotten trees and 

 in damp leaf mould. Among them he identified eight examples of 

 Fridericia polyclmta var. robusta, Fr., an addition, it would appear, 

 to the list of Scottish species. William Evans, Edinburgh. 



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