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Elatine Juwandni^ and in deeper water Spa?-i:^anii/>n mininmm 

 apparently (but the leaves are more pellucid and narrower 

 than usual and no fruit or flowers were seen), and with it 

 Utricularia viinor. 



Carex limosa, L. — On deep peat in the Isle of Colonsay (102). 

 Mr. M'Neill, sp. This occurs in the Mid Ebudes (103). 

 (Fingland, sp.) and in the N. Ebudes (104), (Druce, sp.). 



In another part of the island Mr. M'Neill gathered 

 C. prcecox, \sh.\ch is also an additional record for V.C. 102; 

 and he has also added many others ; but as he is engaged on 

 a List of the Plants of Colonsay, and as they are of less 

 interest from the distribution point of view, I will leave them 

 to him. 



ZOOLOGICAL NOTES. 



Notes from Tiree. — Lapwings have been comparatively scarce 

 as breeding birds this year. I do not think there have been more 

 than one for every ten that use to breed here. None were shot here 

 in winter ; neither was there any protracted storm of frost or snow 

 to kill them. They simply did not come to breed in their usual 

 numbers. Shovellers are increasing yearly as a breeding species, 

 although comparatively few stay in winter. Whimbrels and 

 White Wagtails were numerous on their migration north in the 

 end of April and beginning of May. The White Wagtails take this 

 route regularly on their way south in the end of August and begin- 

 ning of September. But very few Whimbrels appear to take their 

 route on their way south in the autumn. Mute Swans. — There 

 are (loth August 1908), 17 Mute Swans on Loch Vasapol. They 

 came here in the beginning of June. However they will probably 

 leave before the W' inter. — P. Anderson. 



Hawfinch in Berwickshire. — Two Hawfinches {Coccothrausfes 

 coccothraustes) were seen by me in the manse garden, Lauder, 

 an old and a young bird, on the first day of this month 

 (August). The old one, a female, flew several times between high 

 trees that surround it and rows of peas. On the bare branch of a 

 birch tree both were seen quite clearly through binoculars. As they 

 flew from one side to another of the garden the young bird uttered 

 a querulous cheei7ig note, and when alarmed later the other made a 

 tsip-tsipping noise among the trees. They had done a great deal 

 of damage to two pea-rows, and indications pointed to their being 

 two or three days in the garden. After disappearing for a week 

 they returned to the peas and attacked another ripening row. 

 Mr. Wm. Evans, Edinburgh, visited the garden on 15 th August, 

 and from a sheltered spot saw one of the birds. They were not 



