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late Sir Arthur Fowler, or by other competent observers, on no 

 occasion has a Little Auk been seen, till, on i8th January 191 5, a 

 specimen (female) of this bird was brought in by a keeper for 

 identification. It was aUve when captured in a pool on the River 

 Broom about i^ miles inland from the head of Loch Broom ; it died 

 soon afterwards. Regarding the occurrence of the Little Auk in 

 Loch Ewe (about 40 miles south of Loch Broom), an observer 

 writes as follows on 9th February 1915 : — "Two little Auks have 

 been got here this winter. One on the hill above Inveran Lodge 

 some way inland. The other was picked up on the shore below 

 the boat-house here at Tournaig. They were both dead but quite 

 fresh, and uninjured. That m^ktsfour which I have seen here in 

 a period of over seventy years. One about the year 1850 in the 

 Pony Park at Flowerdale, and one which Captain Clowes got at 

 Flowerdale a few years ago." — Alice Fowler. 



Humble-lbees from the Outer Hebrides. — The following 

 Humble-bees were captured by Mr Eagle Clarke at the Butt of Lewis 

 in September last (1914), namely: — Bombus Ii/coru/ii, L., four 

 specimens (3 c^ , 1$); B. distinguendus, Mor., two males; and 

 B. miiscoruni, race sviithianiis, White, one male. Although, with 

 possibly the exception of the first, these bees are already known to 

 occur in the Outer Hebrides, their presence at the northern 

 extremity of that outlying chain of islands seems worth placing 

 on record. B. smithianus has its headquarters in Shetland. — 

 William Evans, Edinburgh. 



Censvis Authentications of Scottish Land and Fresh- 

 water Mollusca. — In the Journal of Conchology for ist April 

 1 91 5, W. Denison Roebuck gives the following Scottish records as 

 based upon specimens submitted to the official authenticators :^ 

 Dumbartonshire — Ena obscura near Dumbarton ; Dumfriesshire 

 — Sphyradiuin edentulum, Lodge Wood, Dalawoodie; Vertigo 

 substriata, Moffat ; Hyalinia helvetica, banks of the Cluden ; 

 Valvata piscinalis, River Cluden just below Dalawoodie ; Ebudes 

 Mid — Valvata piscinalis, var. aamiinata, Planorbis glaber, and 

 Succinea putris, on the margin of a loch in Tiree ; Haddington- 

 shire — Pisidium a/nnicum, Tyne, near East Linton ; Kirk- 

 cudbrightshire — Helicigona arbustoriim, Mabie ; Hyalinia 

 radiatiila, Mabie Marthronn ; Vertigo pygnusa. Glen Burn ; 

 Planorbis carinatiis, Helicella virgata, and H. acuta, New Galloway ; 

 Ross Wk'&t:— Pisidium obtusale and P. nitid/im, Gairloch. 



