iS6 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



winter. He knew the Slavonian, Great Crested, and Little Grebes, 

 and wondered as to the identity of these birds, seeing that they 

 were too large for Slavonian yet not large enough for Great Crested. 

 Neither he nor I have ever seen them on any of the other lochs, 

 but on loth April 1908 I saw a single bird of this species on the 

 sea in the Bay of Ireland. — H. W. Robinson, Lancaster. 



Munida bamffia {Penn.) in the Firth of Forth. — The long-armed 

 Munida seems to be rare in the Firth of Forth, or at any rate seldom 

 obtained {cf. Dr. Scott's " Catalogue of Forth Crustacea "). It may, 

 therefore, be worth while to record the following recent occurrences. 

 Early in 1908 I examined one which had been taken in a crab-creel 

 off North Berwick, and I have a fine specimen that was captured 

 by the same means in the vicinity of the Bass on 14th January 1909. 

 — William Evans, Edinburgh. 



[Two Firth of Forth specimens of Mimida bamffia occur in the 

 collections of the Royal Scottish Museum. Regarding one, no more 

 exact locality than "Firth of Forth" is given; but the other was 

 obtained on the beach at GuUane on ist November 1904. — Eds.] 



Nemotelus uliginosus, Z., in Forth. — Besides the well-known 

 locality for this fly near Aberlady, repeated in Messrs. Carter and 

 Waterston's paper in the " Annals " for April last, I have taken the 

 species at Charlestown in the West of Fife ; both sexes, i6th July 

 1904. — William Evans, Edinburgh. 



BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Floras of the Faroes and Iceland compared with that of 

 Scotland. — To Mr. Arthur Bennett's interesting note "Plants of the 

 Faroe Isles not occurring in Great Britain," etc. in the January 

 number of the "Annals," I should like to add some few remarks. 



Mr. Bennett gives 8 species which occur in the Faroes, but not 

 in Great Britain. He quotes them from my papers on the Flora of 

 the Faroes, w^ith "Additions and Corrections," etc. 1907, and "the 

 Land-Vegetation of the Faroes," 1908 ; but if he had consulted my 

 principal list, viz. " The Phanerogam^e and Pteridophyta of the 

 Faroes," 1901, he would have found that the JDraba hirta given by 

 him as one of the eight species, is D. hirta, f. ritpestris (R. Br.), 

 the same plant as D. rupestris, R. Br., of the British Floras (Babing- 

 ton, " Manual," 9 ed. p. 34). There are, then, only 7 Faroese species 

 absent from great Britain. Among them is Epilobium lactifloru77i, 

 Haussku, which I suspect will be found in the Scottish mountains. 



Mr. Bennett's list of Faroese species absent in one or more of the 

 vice-counties — Shetland, Orkney, Caithness, Outer Hebrides — con- 

 tains also records for Iceland, and with regard to the occurrence or 



