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NOTES. 



Bembidium quinquestriatum, Gyll., in the Edinburgh 

 District. — In the January number (p. i6) of the Entomologisfs 

 Monthly Magazine, T. Hudson Beare records the capture on 20th 

 February 191 5 of this species of beetle in the Midcalder district, 

 and remarks upon its scarcity in the Edinburgh district. Since 

 1 90 1 he has repeatedly searched for it, but in vain, until the 

 occasion noted. In the March number (pp. 64-65) of the same 

 journal William Evans gives the results of his experience with the 

 species, and gives details of his captures in the neighbourhood of 

 the same city. In the course of the past twenty-seven years this 

 beetle was taken by him on scarcely a dozen occasions. 



Myelophilus minor (Hartig), in Forfarshire. — On 14th 

 November 1915, while visiting a Scots pine wood on Balhall Estate, 

 near Brechin, I picked up three fallen pine twigs that had been bored 

 by a Myelophilus. I put these in my pocket and examined them on 

 my return to Edinburgh. In two of the twigs I found Myelophilus 

 piniperda, L., and in the third, Myelophilus minor. — James W,. 

 MuNRO, Edinburgh. 



Some Notes on the Eclipse Plumage of the Young Male 

 Goldeneye. — -Eclipse plumages are often difficult to obtain, and 

 the published matter relating to the eclipse of the Goldeneye 

 [Bucephala clangula clangula) is, as far as we have been able to 

 ascertain, rather scanty. In Dresser's Birds of Europe there is a 

 full description of an adult male in eclipse, translated from 

 Dr Palmen {Finl. Fogl., ii., p. 469), and Bechstein has a short 

 description of the same stage (JValurg. Deutschlds., iv., p. 990). In 

 Millais' British Diving Ducks (vol. i., pp. 82 and 83) there are 

 interesting notes on the eclipse plumage of both old and young 

 male Goldeneye, but even he does not give a full description. We 

 therefore think it may not come amiss to place on record the state 

 of plumage of a young male in the collection of the Royal Scottish 

 Museum. This bird was got on Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, on i ith 

 November 1908 ; from the fact that the white on the wing-coverts 

 is so much mixed with dark, we take it to be a young bird about 

 sixteen months old. Head and neck greyish brown, paler on the 

 chin and throat ; some of the feathers have darker tips, and a lot 

 of very small dark feathers are appearing on the cheeks. The 

 white spot at the base of the bill is very indistinct, being represented 

 by a few white feathers mixed with the brown ones, some of them 



