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one was killed by coming in contact with the telephone wires in the 

 High Street of Annan, and the following morning, Mr. Wannop shot 

 one (of a flock of six or eight) near the Solway viaduct. Shortly after- 

 wards the same gentleman saw another flock of four or five at Annan 

 Waterfoot and subsequently he saw a single bird at Milnneld Railway 

 bridge. Then Mr. Service examined a pair which were caught at 

 Newbie, and on 30th September Mr. Farish, yr. of Kirkland showed 

 him another which he had found a couple of days previously at 

 Gamerigg plantation some 20 miles from the sea. On 28th 

 September, one was picked up in an exhausted condition in the High 

 Street of Moffat, as recorded by Mr. F. G. Murray in the " Field " of 

 24th October. The most easterly occurrence I have noted is that 

 of a specimen picked up dead in a bog on the banks of the South 

 Esk, eleven miles from Kirriemuir, Forfarshire (Mr. Sydney Peel, 

 " Field," 3d October). All the examples I have examined were more 

 or less in the moult and in a very emaciated condition. The 

 Edinburgh bird had lost one of its legs. From the numbers that 

 have been driven upon the north-west coast of Ireland we may form 

 some idea of their whereabouts when overtaken by the storm. — 

 William Evans, Edinburgh. 



Occurrence of Triglops murrayi, Giinther, on the East Coast 

 of Scotland. — The first specimen of this fish for the east coast of 

 Scotland was caught fourteen miles off Aberdeen, on 1st October 

 1890. Four more were obtained off Montrose, on 7 th February 1 8 9 1 ; 

 and the sixth specimen was caught off the Kincardineshire coast, 

 on 3d September 1891. These specimens were all caught in the 

 ordinary trawl net, and kindly preserved for me by Mr. Geo. King, 

 master of the trawl vessel " St. Oswin." This fish was first captured 

 by Dr. John Murray while cruising in the "Medusa" in 1887-88 off 

 the Mull of Cantyre and the Island of Sanda, and described as new 

 by Dr. Giinther, of the British Museum, from Dr. Murray's specimen. 

 — Geo. Sim, Aberdeen. 



[This species was described and figured, in 1889, by Dr. Giinther 

 in the " Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh," xv. p. 209, Plate IV. Fig. A. 

 — W. E. C] 



Note on Zeugopterus unimaeulatus, Risso, and its Habitat. — 



One of the most elegant of the flat-fishes is this little Top-Knot, that 

 has come to be very familiar to us. It differs from Rhombus piinctatus 

 mainly in having a brilliant second spot on the lateral line an inch or 

 so above the tail. However markedly different from the flounder or 

 the dab, it does not seem to have been noted until lately, or when 

 noted it was not looked up as specifically different from Rhombus 

 piinctatus. This was the view taken of it when, having captured 

 and figured it in 1881, I showed the drawing to the late Dr. Day. 

 He was wisely opposed to species-mongering, and looked upon this 

 single external colouring mark as insufficient to constitute a species. 



