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Murray, James, 1910. — "Biology of Scottish Lochs" in Murray and Pulhr's 

 Bathyinelrical Snrvt-y of Scottish Lochs, vol. i., 1910. [Records '■' Gordiiis 

 sp." from Loch Lochy, Inverness-shire, p. 318, on the statement of Mr 

 C. H. Martin.] 



RoMER, F., 1896. — " Beitrag zur Systematik der GordWilen" AtJi. Senckenk Ges. 

 Frankfurt a, M., BJ. 23, Heft 2, 1S96, pp. 249-295, Taf. xiv. 



Southern, R., 1907. — " Nematomorpha " in "Contributions to the Natural 

 History o( Lambay," Irish Wilnralist, 1907, p. 84. 



Southern, R., 1909. — ''The Gordii of Ireland," Irish Naturalist, 1909, p. US- 

 [A summary of locality records based on identifications of Camerano 

 recorded by that author in 1908 ; see reference above.] 



Templeton, R., 1836. — "Catalogue of the Species of Annulose Animals, etc., 

 in Ireland," Loudon's Mag. Nat. Hist., vol. ix., 1836, p, 242. [Refers to 

 Gordius aqiiaticiis, and gives several records, some of which obviously do 

 not refer to any Gordiid worm.] 



NOTES. 



Water-Shrew in Renfrewshire. — As a list of Renfrewshire 

 mammals in the recently published volume of Transactions of tJie 

 Paisley Naturalists' Society (vol. ii., pp. 85-88) contains no 

 reference to the Water-shrew {Crossoptis fodiens), it is desirable to 

 put on record again the fact that this species does occur in the 

 county. It is incidentally mentioned as a Renfrewshire mammal by 

 Mr Hugh Boyd Watt in an article on the Land " Mammals of the 

 Clyde Faunal Area " ( Tra/is. Nat. Hist. Soc. of Glasgow (New 

 Series), vol. iii., p. 173); for some thirty-five years I have known 

 it as an inhabitant of several of the streams in the eastern part of 

 the shire, and it has been captured by the side of Commore Dam. 

 Among the country people who know it, some consider it to be the 

 young of the Water-vole, or Water-rat as they call the latter; but 

 the active little creature, when swimming on the surface of the 

 water, with its pointed head, flattened body, and short, dark, velvety 

 fur is more like a small long-tailed Mole than a Water-vole, which 

 has a blunt muzzle and somewhat shaggy, greyish-brown fur. (I 

 have never seen a black water-vole in Renfrewshire.) As one 

 usually views the Water-shrew from above, its white underparts are 

 seldom noticed in the field. It seems to prefer the still reaches of 

 the stream, where, in the muddy bottom, it may be seen grubbing 

 for larvLE, which it often brings to the surface to dispatch and 

 swallow. On the other hand I have seen it, in the burn in Rouken 



