1 84 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Fulmar Petrel (Fulmarus glacialis) breeding in Papa Stour, 

 Shetland. — It may be interesting to place on record the fact that 

 thirty pairs of Fulmars had nests on the south-westerly face of the 

 Horn of Papa Stour in 1892. Hitherto, I believe, its only Shetland 

 nesting resort has been Foula. — Adelaide L. Traill, Edinburgh. 



The Palmated Newt (Molge palmatd) in Inverness-shire. — 



Following up my note on this species in the " Annals " for April 

 last (p. 118), I have now to record it from Inverness-shire, where I 

 found it in May last in some abundance in a pool close to Aviemore, 

 and also at Loch Vaa, about three miles distant. — William Evans, 

 Edinburgh. , 



Scottish Newts Wanted. — I shall be glad to receive specimens 

 of Newts, for examination, from all parts of Scotland, with the view 

 to working out the distribution of the species. All co-operation 

 will be duly acknowledged. They travel well alive in a little damp 

 moss. — William Eagle Clarke, Museum of Science and Art, 

 Edinburgh. 



On Nesera euspidata (Olivi) and Odostomia rufa (Philippi), var. 

 fulvo-eineta, in the Firth of Forth. — These two species have already 

 been recorded for the Forth Estuary, but are apparently rare ; and 

 this report of their recent occurrence may therefore be of interest. 

 On the 14th of April last, we were trawling a few miles (6 to 8) 

 east of May Island, in 31 to 32 fathoms of water (ordinary spring 

 tides), when, owing to a slight accident, the bottom tow-net when 

 hauled up was found to contain a considerable quantity of muddy 

 sand ; this sand was casually examined when collected, but appeared 

 to include little of anything that was of special interest. It was 

 nevertheless carefully washed, and when afterwards an opportunity 

 occurred for looking over the material, several interesting things 

 were obtained, among which were Petalomera dedivis, G. O. Sars, 

 and Campylaspis rubicunda, Lilljeborg, — two Crustaceans that have 

 been only lately added to the British fauna, and the two species of 

 Mollusca now referred to. 



Necera euspidata is recorded in Leslie and Herdman's useful 

 little work on the " Invertebrate Fauna of the Firth of Forth," on 

 the authority of Thomas, as occurring off Port Seaton and Fidra, in 

 17 fathoms. In the same work reference is also made to Firth of 

 Forth records in Forbes and Hanley's " British Mollusca," and in 

 Dr. M 'Bain's Catalogue (in Wood's " East Neuk of Fife ") ; but there 

 appears to be no record of its occurrence in the Forth Estuary 

 within recent years. Though apparently a widely distributed species, 

 there are comparatively few reports of its occurrence on the east of 

 Scotland. Macgillivray has reported it from the Aberdeenshire 

 coast, and I have it from the Moray Firth. The Moray Firth 

 specimen is smaller even than that from the mouth of the Forth 



