NOTES 2I3 



(1883-4); 2 , Garynahine, Lewis, 4th July 1906 (Kinnear). 

 Recorded for Jura by Carter and Waterston, Ann. Scot. Nat. 

 Hist., 1909, p. 94. 



[It may be of interest to record that an undoubted <$ of 

 C. crassicornis and a $ of pluvialis were caught by me 

 flying in coitu on the roadside at Lochboisdale, S. Uist, on 

 23rd June 1910.] 

 91. Therioplectes montanus, Mg. 1 ? , Rum, 10th June 19 10 

 (Misses Baxter and Rintoul) ; 1 <$ and 24 ? , S. Uist, 

 June 1 9 to (Grimshaw) ; 1 ? , Bunaveneader, Harris, 

 July 1907 (Edwards). 



(To be continued.) 







NOTES. 



Large Sturgeon in the Solway Firth. A Sturgeon was 

 captured at Dornock Brow, near Annan, on iSth July. It measured 

 9 ft. 2 ins. in length, was 4 ft. 11 ins. in girth, and weighed 

 350 lbs. This is the largest Sturgeon captured in the locality; 

 one of 336 lbs., taken in the Newbie nets in July 1898 having 

 hitherto been the record. Hugh S. Gladstone, Thornhill, 

 Dumfriesshire. 



Scottish Heronries. In The Scottish Naturalist for May 

 last (pp. 1 1 2-1 15), there is a paper on "Scottish Heronries" by 

 Mr Hugh Boyd Watt. On p. 114 under "Argyll and the Inner 

 Hebrides " there is given " Riska Isle, Loch Moidart ; eighty to 

 a hundred nests, but it is difficult to state the number definitely. 

 F. Bonnett." This small island, on which I may mention that 

 Herons have nested only in recent years, is close to my residence. 

 The nests number five. I may add that Risca is the only island 

 in Loch Moidart on which Herons breed. Symers M. Macvicar, 

 Invermoidart. 



Nesting of Twites on Ailsa Craig. On 20th July two 

 young Twites (Acanthis flavirostris) were observed resting on the 

 wire fence that protects the pipe track leading to the north fog- 



