184 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Turning to the Agrionid family, we have of Lestes sponsa 

 a male, 9th July, from Lochinver, and three females from 

 Aviemore on 10th August. The three specimens from A vie- 

 more were sent to me in small tubes, apparently starting 

 alive. They came to Kingston, and then were forwarded to 

 me in the New Forest. Two were dead when I received 

 them, but the third, notwithstanding the length of time on 

 the journey, was quite alive. Several specimens of the 

 common Pyrrhosoma nymphida were in the collection — two 

 females, Inchnadamph, 1st June; two males, Loch Assynt, 

 10th and 12th June; one male, Lochinver, 23rd June; a 

 male and a female in coitti, Lochinver, 9th July ; and a 

 female (incomplete), Nethy Bridge, 28th July. Ischnura 

 elegans was represented by five Lochinver examples — a 

 male, and a nice female of the var. rufescens, 20th June ; a 

 male, 1st July; a male (incomplete), 9th July; and a male, 

 16th July. All the specimens of the remaining species, 

 Enallagma cyathigerum, also came from Lochinver. They 

 were — a male, 20th June; three females, 21st June; a male 

 and a female in coitu, 23rd June; and a female, 24th June. 

 In addition there was from Lochinver a nymph-skin, found 

 nth July, from which presumably had emerged a very 

 teneral female E. cyathigerum, which accompanied it. 



Col. Yerbury deserves the thanks of those who are 

 working at the Odonata, for adding so considerably to our 

 knowledge of that interesting Order. 



NOTES. 



Scarcity of Young Rooks. — Regarding Dr Harvie-Brown's 

 note on p. 163 of the Scottish Naturalist, I may say that I have 

 never known young Rooks so late of appearing on the branches as 

 they have been this year. Scarcely any were to be seen here on 

 the branches during May, but towards the end of the first week and 

 during the second week of June they were very plentiful. I do not 

 think the eggs were blown out of the nests, as I was in the wood 

 during the storm of 8th April and saw no egg-shells on the 

 ground. — James Bartholomew, Torrance, near Glasgow. 



