1 / 2 TEANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETYT OF GLASGOW. 



ORDER INSECTIVORA. 

 Family Erinaceidce. 



6. Erinaceus europoeus, L. — Hedgehog. This species is 

 named in both the old and new Statistical Accounts of Scotland 

 (1791-7 and 1815) from many of the Clyde parishes. They 

 need not be recapitulated. It is, however, noteworthy that 

 none, except Luss, is in the Highland portion< of the area. In 

 view of this, it may be said that Mr. James Lumsden reports 

 the Hedgehog as common on Loch Lomondside, and that I know 

 of its recent occurrence at Arrochar, Glen Massan, and luuellau. 

 The late John Colquhoun gave it as co-mmon in Bute, and Mr. 

 John Robertson recently saw it in that island. There are no 

 Arran records. It is found near our large towns; for instance, 

 at Castlemilk, Rutherglen, it is abundant. 



Fatnily Talpidce. 



1. Talpa europoea, L. — Mole. This is another species 

 named in both Statistical Accounts from many parishes. 

 Highland and Lowland. It is probably more abundant now 

 than then. It is reported to have " commenced ravages " about 

 1824 in Saddell and Skipness, but is said to have spread to 

 Campbeltown only recently, and not yet to be known in South- 

 end. Pennant (1777) writes of it as " among the isles only in 

 Bute; a praise to its soil." I do not know that it occurs there 

 now or in any of the other Clyde islands. Its remains have 

 been found on Ailsa Craig, but the animals were probably carried 

 from the mainland by birds. Mole hills and castings may be 

 seen on many of our grass-moorlands and lower hills up to about 

 2,000 feet. I have seen them in Coire an Tee (Loch Eck), at 

 1,200 feet, in early spring, when the snow-line was about 

 1,000 feet. 



Family Soricidce. 



8. Sorex VULGARIS, L. — Common Shrew. Occurs all over 

 the area, from the Glasgow Parks to the uplands of Lanarkshire 

 (Carmichael) and the remote Ayrshire coast (Lendalfoot), and also 

 in the islands. There is a want of information from the High- 

 land parts, but I have recent records from Arran and Bute. A 



