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was brought' alive to the school. When irritated it uttered a weird 

 kind of sound, something between the squeak of a mouse and the 

 plaintive cry of a wounded rabbit." This appears to be the first 

 specimen recorded from the Outer Hebrides, for no mention of that 

 area is made in Tutt's account of the distribution of the species in 

 Britain (1904), nor have I been able to trace a record since that 

 date. — James Ritchie, Edinburgh. 



Tetracanthella wahlgreni, Axels., in Scotland. — In a 



paper on Collembola from the Forth Area, published in Proc. Roy. 

 Phys. Soc. Edin. for 1908 (vol. xvii., No. 5, p. 198), I mentioned 

 that in September 1906 I had found several examples of a 

 Tetracanthella — a genus new to the British fauna — in sphagnum on 

 Ben Ledi and Stuc-a-Chroin, Perthshire, but was uncertain as to the 

 species. Having since obtained further specimens among moss 

 brought to me from St Kilda in September last by Mr Eagle Clarke, 

 I have been led to look into the matter again, and have come to the 

 conclusion that these Scottish Tetracanthella are referable to the 

 species which Axelson in his " Apterygotenfauna Finlands " has 

 named T. ivahlgreni ; they have not the clavate hairs of T pilosa, 

 Schott, and have a much shorter spring. Mr R. S. Bagnall tells me 

 he has recently taken T wahlgreni in the north of England. — 

 William Evans. 



The Thorny Lobster in Lewis. — Mr John Anderson, M.A., 

 B.Sc, Stornoway, sends an additional record of Palinurus vulgaris^ 

 L., from the Outer Hebrides. The specimen, now in the museum 

 of the Nicholson Institute, was found by a fisherman, crawling on 

 a rock near Stornoway. This is the first example recorded from 

 Lewis. — James Ritchie, Edinburgh. 



book notices. 



The British Warblers: A History, with Problems of their 

 Lives, by H. Elliot Howard, Part VI., with Coloured and 

 Photogravure Plates. R- H. Porter. 21s. net per Part. 



With this part Mr Howard's excellent history of our Warblers 

 enters upon its second volume. The species treated of are the 

 Willow Warbler, Savi's Warbler, and the Rufous Warbler. To the 

 illustration of these species three coloured and five photogravure 

 plates are devoted. We have already expressed our very high 

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