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chloropus) sitting at the side of a small stream. He tried to catch 

 it with the crook of his stick but failed, and it slid into the water. 

 It then swam down the stream under water for about fifty yards, 

 using its wings as a man uses his arms in swimming. We headed 

 it off, and it then swam up stream in a similar manner — when it 

 came to the surface it was nipped up by a retriever. It was a 

 sight I had not seen before, and all present were astonished at the 

 length of time the bird swam below water. — Hugh S. Gladstone, 

 Capenoch, Dumfriesshire. 



Black-tailed Godwit and Great Grey Shrike in Fife. — On the 



shore at St. Andrews, on the 5th of December, we saw a Black- 

 tailed Godwit {Li??iosa belgica). It was standing at the edge of the 

 sea with a Bar-tailed Godwit (Z. lapponicd)^ and they allowed us to 

 come quite close and examine them for some time through our 

 glasses ; they then took flight, and the white upper tail-coverts and 

 black tail of belgica were extremely noticeable. On the 28th 

 November a Great Grey Shrike was procured here : it turned out to 

 be an adult male. — Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey 



RiNTOUL. 



[According to "The Field" (23rd November, p. 937), a Black- 

 tailed Godwit was shot on the Beauly Firth during the previous 

 week. — Eds.] 



Sabine's Gull in the Firth of Forth. — On 31st August last 

 (1907) I had an excellent view, with the aid of binoculars, of 

 an immature Sabine's Gull {Xenia sabinii) from the deck of the 

 Roslin Castle shortly after leaving Elie for Leith. It followed the 

 steamer for some distance, occasionally coming within 50 to 60 

 yards of us, but did not mix with the other gulls which were 

 eagerly picking up bits of bread, etc., thrown to them. This is the 

 second time I have seen a Sabine's Gull in the Forth (see " Annals," 

 1896, p. 257), and it may be recalled that a specimen was shot at 

 North Berwick early in October 1877. — William Evans, Edinburgh. 



Angler Fish in the Tay. — On the loth of October last I 

 received from a man in Errol a specimen of the Angler Fish or 

 Fishing-frog {Lopliius piscatorius) which I have preserved for the fish 

 case in the museum. The species is common enough on the East 

 Coast, and is often to be seen on the sands at Carnoustie. The 

 interest of the present specimen is that it should have been taken 

 alive at Port Allan (on the Tay), which is not much more than 

 eight miles east of Perth. — A. M. Rodger, Perth. 



Lepidoptera from East Ross and other Localities in the North 

 of Scotland. — The following is a further list of species which have 

 not been recorded so far north, or in East Ross, in Barrett's " British 

 Lepidoptera," and which I have taken within an eight-mile radius 

 of Swordale, either in larva or imago state, this year ; — 



