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Cheiroptera — Bats. 

 Pipistrelle. 

 Long-eared. 



Insectivora. 

 Hedgehog. 

 Common shrew. 

 Lesser shrew. 

 Water shrew. 

 Mole. 



Camivora. 



Fox. 



Otter. 



Badger. 



Mammalia. 



Weasel. 

 Stoat. 

 Common seal. 



Rodeiitia. 

 Squirrel. 

 Water-vole. 

 Field-vole. 

 Bank -vole. 

 Brown rat. 

 House-mouse. 

 Wood-mouse or Long- 

 tailed field-mouse. 

 Common hare. 

 Rabbit. 



Ungulata. 

 Red-deer. 



Cetacea. 

 Lesser rorqual 



(Granton, 1888). 

 Beaked whale 



(S. Queensferry, 



Sept. 1883). 

 Porpoise. 



Pilot or caaing whale. 

 Common dolphin 



(Hound Point, Feb. 



1887). 



My list of birds numbers 136, and I shall now make a few 

 comments on some of those most deserving of notice. These 

 birds were observed during the last twenty-five years or so. 



Grasshopper Warbler.— On 22nd June last I heard this bird in full 

 song about 4.30 a.m. near the Drum Brae. 



Dipper.— Not so plentiful in the district as formerly. I knew a nest 

 with four eggs on 8th March 1889— a fairly early record. 



Spotted Flycatcher.— Yor many years in succession a pair of these birds 

 built their nest and reared their brood in the bushes growing up the wall 

 of my father's house at Longgreen. The birds arrived in the beginning 

 of May, and departed towards the end of August. 



Goldfiiich. — Is occasionally seen. 



Siskin. — Seen usually in winter-time. 



Starling.— B.a.B increased enormously in recent years. About forty 

 years ago this bird was so rare that when it was known that a pair 

 were nesting in the ruins of Barnbougle Castle several local bird-fanciers 

 betook themselves thither in the small hours of the morning to see these 

 rarse aves. 



Jay.— Has only been twice seen in this district to my knowledge, the 

 last occasion being in 1896. 



i/a^rpte.— Plentiful in the locality. About twenty years ago I saw 

 about seventy magpies together in a field at Lauriston Brae. The morning 

 was rather stormy, and the birds were collected in the corner of a stubble 

 field. The magpie is generally looked upon as a great egg-stealer. Its 

 presence in this neighbourhood does not appear to diminish the number 

 of song-birds. 



Barn-Old. — Now very scarce. 



Tavmy owl.— Very common, especially in Dalmeny Park, where it is 



