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Sores: rusticus—More common: in fields and hedges than the 
former, which occurs chiefly in the wilder districts. 
5, ciliatus—Once found dead in the wood at Old Bridge of 
Don. 
,, fodiens—Occurs at Auchterless, Turriff, Castleton, &c. 
Talpa Europcea—General and common. 
In vol. XXXVIII. of the same journal (pp. 138-41) is an 
article “On a species of Yeredo found in cork floats on the 
coast of Aberdeenshire,” by William Macgillivray, M.A., LL.D. 
In this he describes the burrows and the shells of what lie 
considers a new species, and names Zeredo subericola; in 
Jeffrey's conchology I find it referred to as a dwarf form 
of Teredo megotara. 
In 1855 was published the Natural History of Deeside, a work 
written by Dr. Macgillivray a short time~before his death, and 
printed for private distribution by command of the Queen. 
Scattered through it are various notes on the vertebrata 
observed in a tour along the Dee in autumn, and an appendix 
gives lists of the vertebrata of Deeside, along with a list of 
coleoptera of Scotland in general, by Mr. A. Murray, and 
short lists of inseets of Aberdeenshire, compiled from Dr. 
Macgillivray’s manuscripts, by his son, Mr. Paul Macgillivray. 
There is also a list of Aberdeenshire mollusca, in which are 
enumerated ten species and one variety, added to the list after 
the publication of his work on mollusca. The lists of vertebrata 
are very good, and contain various interesting remarks. Thus, 
among the mamumalia, we find “ Lepus cwnieulus, Rev. Dr. Skene 
Keith, in 1811, says ‘that “there are no rabbits raised for sale, 
and only a few for amusement—not a hundred in the whole 
county.” There were no rabbits in Braemar till very recently, 
. but they have increased there, as elsewhere in the county, so 
) as to be a nuisance.” “Seiurus vulgaris has not been found 
on Dee.” . 
The list of birds enumerates 108 species, residents or stragglers 
on Deeside, some of them on the authority of Dr. Adams of 
Banchory. 
. The reptilia include the three species, and the amphibia the 
two to which our lists are still confined. Dr. Macgillivray 
describes as new the frogs found on the hills in Braemar, 
under the name of Rana ericetorum,. but they hardly can be 
considered as even a well-marked variety. 
The species of fish found in the Dee and its tributaries are 
given as 8 in number, besides the perch and the charr,’ 
introduced into some of the lochs. 
Turning to the insecta, we find a long list of coleoptera, drawn 
up by Mr. A. Murray, but though inserted in the Natural 
History of Braemar, it is really a Hist of the coleoptera of the 
