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that it is long since this animal was first taken near Gamrie. Mr. 

 W. Macgillivray first records the capture of this interesting little 

 animal in Aberdeenshire.* 



29. Common Field- Vole, Short-tailed Field-Mouse. Arvicola 

 agrestis, De Selys. — Exceedingly common in fields and gardens. 



30. Red Field- Vole, Bank-Vole. Arvicola glareolus (Schreber). — 

 Not so common as the last-named species. Is found chiefly in old 

 natural grass and marshy pastures. 



31. Water- Vole or Water-Rat. Arvicola amphibius (Lin.). — 

 I have never myself seen any but the black variety of this species 

 here, but Mr. Cameron, who has had a large experience in trapping 

 vermin of all kinds, says that brown ones are occasionally met with. 

 He has seen some with the black tinted with brown, and has found 

 a young brown one in the same litter with three black ones. Mr. 

 Duncan also says that he sees them of a brownish hue. 



Family : Leprtridae. 



32. Common Hare. Lepus europaeus, Pallas. — Very numerous 

 until the passing of the late Act of Parliament, which gave farmers 

 the right to kill ground game. 



33. Mountain Hare. Lepus variabilis, Pallas. — The White 

 Hare is occasionally found on the few hills in the district of 

 Buchan, but is not known to breed in the district It is probably 

 driven down by the snowstorms in winter from the higher hills in 

 Banffshire. 



34. Rabbit. Lepus cunicidus, Lin. — Extremely abundant along 

 the coast in the sandy hillocks covered with bent grass, as well as 

 in the large woods at Pitfour, Brucklay, etc. In one year upwards 

 of 12,000 Rabbits were killed in the policies round Pitfour House. 



II. — Xotes on the Fossils found in a thin bed of impure Carbonifer- 

 ous Limestone at Glencart, near Dairy, Ayrshire. By Mr. John 

 Young, F.G.S., Vice-President. 



In a former paper read before this Society at the meeting of 24th 

 September, 1878, and printed in the Proceedings, vol. iv., p. 5, 

 "On a group of fossil organisms termed Conodonts," I called 

 attention to an interesting and peculiar deposit at Glencart, near 



* " Naturalists' Library," vol. xxii., p. 257. 



