MEMOIR. XIX 



logical capture on tliis tour was that of a pair o£ young Sea-Eagles, 

 taken by Wolley himself from the eyry at Dunnet Head (§ 67) and 

 sent alive to the residence of his relatives at Matlock, where a mass 

 of rocks, possibly tenanted in bygone years by the other native 

 species, was subsequently wired over after a design of his own ; and 

 the plan of the cage thus formed being brought to the knowledge of 

 l\Ir. Mitchell, then Secretary of the Zoological Society, suggested the 

 formation of the fine Eagle aviary which for many years adorned 

 tlie Gardens in the Regent's Park. 



During this year he was, though not its first discoverer, the first 

 to publish a somewhat important addition to the native British 

 Fauna. Early in April 1848 he noticed near Edinburgh a Newt, 

 which he modestly remarked he had not observed elsewhere (Zool. 

 1818, p. 2149), and sent a description of it to Professor Bell, who, 

 replying to him on the 17th of that month, told him that three or 

 four years before living examples of what was doubtless the same 

 species had been sent to him (Bell) from " Devonshire " — a mistake, 

 as subsequently appeared, for Somerset, where it was found by 

 Mr. William Baker of Bridgwater in 1845 {torn. cit. p. 2198). 

 A few days later Wolley transmitted '' a plentiful supply "^ of live 

 specimens to Bell, who wrote on the 1st of ]\Iay acknowledging their 

 safe arrival, and considered that they belonged to an undescribed 

 species. This, however, M. Deby, a Belgian zoologist, speedily 

 identified {torn. cit. p. 2231) with the Salamandra palmipes of Daudin, 

 a determination immediately accepted by Wolley [torn. cit. pp. 2265- 

 2268), who in the meanwhile had found several examples in a pool 

 near Loch Eribol in Sutherland. In 1849 Bell published a new 

 edition of his ' British Reptiles,' in which he corrected his former 

 error, for in his first edition he had described and figured, under the 



his fiugers caught in a spring-trap, set by a more fortunate precursor, who having 

 taken the eggs hoped to talie the bird also. Though I beheve that the Association 

 which a few years before had been offering rewards for the destruction of birds-of- 

 prey in Sutherland and Caithness had then ceased to be active, the hand of almost 

 every landlord and tenant, forester and shepherd, was still raised against them, so 

 tliat in nearly each district anyone whose object was to rob an Eagle's or Osprey's 

 nest was rather welcome than otherwise ; but in this, as in every succeeding expe- 

 dition of the kind, ^^'olley was careful to obtain the consent of the owner of the 

 laud or his ap'ent. 



