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the 9th of June 1888. This does not appear to have been 

 previously recorded. Mr Read, however, is quite wrong in 

 supposing that it " was on account of this specimen that Howard 

 Saunders in his Manual recorded the Landrail as having been 

 obtained on St Kilda." Saunders had already quoted St Kilda 

 for this species in vol. iii.. Part 17, of YarrelPs British Birds 

 published in 1883, and was doubtless aware of Martin's record 

 of 1697. 



Little Auks in the Perth District. — I have received for 

 the Museum a specimen of the Little Auk, which was picked up 

 dead in a field within a mile of Tummelbridge, on Sunday, 30th 

 January 1916. Other two specimens were found in the same 

 district during the month of January. A fourth specimen was got 

 at Kinmonth, near Bridge of Earn, and a fifth at Newtonmore. 

 There was a long-continued succession of south-westerly gales 

 during the month of January.— Hknrv Coates, Perthshire Natural 

 History Museum. 



Black-tailed Godwit in Forth. — Seeing there are only half 

 a dozen records of the occurrence of the Black-tailed Godwit 

 {Limosa limosd) in the Forth area, I may mention that one was seen 

 by me in Aberlady Bay on 7th August last (1915.) It was by itself, 

 and seemed disinclined to mingle with the flocks of other waders. — 

 William Evans, Edinburgh. 



Lycaena artaxerxes and Zygaena filipendulae in Kin- 

 cardineshire. — Both these species of Lepidoptera are stated by 

 G. E. Hartley {Entomologist, January 1916, p. 22) to have "literally 

 swarmed" during the season of 191 5 on the sea braes at Muchalls. 

 A long series of Z. artaxerxes was taken, including several 

 aberrations. 



Acronycta aceris on Birch in Aberdeenshire. — In the 



Entomologist for January (p. 22), G. E. Hartley mentions the 

 occurrence of three larvas of this species on birch. All the 

 specimens duly pupated. The species is stated to be an addition 

 to the Aberdeenshire List of Lepidoptera. 



A new British Moth. — According to Edward Meyrick 

 {Ent. Mo. Mag., January 1916, p. 17), a fine example of the 

 Tineid Moth Depressaria hepatariella, Zell., has been taken in 

 Scotland by the Rev. J. W, Metcalfe. The precise locality and 



