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Head on the east side of the island, where we found two nests and 

 about half a dozen pairs of birds. One of the Noup lighthouse- 

 keepers told me that he thought there were nearly double the 

 amount of Fulmars at the Noup this year (191 2) as compared with 

 last year. He also thinks that the Fulmars are driving away the 

 Herring-Gulls from their former nesting-ledges on the cliffs. 



When in Shetland I visited a small island (Uyea) which lies to 

 the south-east of Unst. Here the shepherd told me that he had 

 seen five or six Fulmars " hanging around " the low-lying cliffs of the 

 island, and had actually seen an egg of this bird on a ledge (June 

 1 91 2). The bird had never been seen by him near the island 

 before, although there are great numbers at the north of Unst. 

 However, when I visited these cliffs on 3rd September this year I 

 saw neither signs of old nests nor birds. I was informed, however, 

 that two or three birds were nesting on the cliffs which lie to the 

 north of Uyeasound, about one mile distant, and they may have 

 gone there from Uyea. Certainly I saw a Fulmar flying close to 

 the Uyeasound cliffs as I passed in the steamer (2nd September), 

 but I never had an opportunity of searching these cliffs thoroughly. 

 The natives told me that this was the first time that these, cliffs 

 had been visited by Fulmars within their memory. — G. D. Ferguson, 

 Edinburgh. 



Micariosoma festiva, C. L. Koch, in Linlithgowshire. — 



While collecting insects on Drumshoreland Moor, on 7th July 19 12, 

 I picked up a specimen of this curious Spider, which appears to be 

 of very local distribution in "Forth." When captured it was 

 running actively in sunshine on a grassy bank, in close proximity 

 to one or two colonies of the Ant Formica fusca, to which the 

 Spider bears considerable superficial resemblance.— S. E. Brock, 

 Kirkliston. 



The Painted-Lady Butterfly at the Isle of May, etc. — 



On the afternoon of 16th August last, I saw nine Painted-Lady 

 Butterflies [Vanessa carduf), two of which I captured, on the Isle of 

 May. Some of them were flitting about the lighthouse gardens; 

 while others were in the enclosure where the ruins of the old 

 chapel stand, and about the little harbour on the east side of the 

 island. They had not — so I was informed — been noticed previous 

 to the morning of that day, and, except one, four days later, were 

 not again observed. That they were immigrants from abroad, 

 I have no doubt; and it is interesting to note that on 18th August, 

 about a dozen were seen by Mr D. Bruce on the coast at Skateraw, 

 a few miles south of Dunbar. The first I myself observed was on 



