XX MEMOIR. 



name of Lissotriton palmipes (Daud.), some specimens of the ordinary 

 English smooth Newt, and he now recognized Wolley^s services in 

 setting him right. The species thus added to the Fauna of Great 

 Britain lias since been found in many localities in Scotland, as I 

 learn from Mr. W. E. Clarke, and is the Molge palmata (Schneider) 

 of recent authors [cf. Boulenger, Cat. Batrach. Grad. Brit. Mus. ed. 2, 

 p. 16). 



Another zoological incident of some interest, but of less import- 

 ance, occurred to Wolley in the course of this tour. While in 

 Orkney there Avas placed in his hands a Bat which had been caught 

 alive nearly a twelvemonth before (September 184^7) on the island 

 of South Eonaldshay (Zool. 1849, p. 2343), and on submitting the 

 specimen to Mr. Waterhouse, of the British Museum, it was pro- 

 nounced by him and Dr. Gray to belong to the American Vespertilio 

 j)ruinosus of Say. Wolley in recording its occurrence, though 

 recognizing the possibility of its having found its own w^ay across 

 the Atlantic, remarked that it was '' a very likely animal to be 

 brought in a ship,^' an opinion to which he held {op. cit. 1850, 

 pp. 2695, 2696), though tempted by Mr. Newman to declare a belief 

 in its being a voluntary visitor. He subsequently [torn. cit. pp. 2813, 

 2814) gave a minute description of the specimen. The species is the 

 Atalapha cinerea (Palisot) of Mr. Dobson (Cat. Chiropt. Brit. Mus. 

 pp. 272, 273) , and what I believe to be the Orkney example (dried, 

 not a mere skin), coming into my possession at Wolley^s death, is 

 now in the Museum of Zoology at Cambridge. 



Profiting by the knowledge gained during the preceding year, he 

 started early in 1849 for the north and journeyed throughout 

 Sutherland and Caithness, for the most part on foot, devoting him- 

 self to investigating the habits of the larger birds-of-prey, which, as 

 he perceived, were soon to be rendered nearly extinct in that district 

 by the combined efforts of sheep-farmers, game-preservers, and so- 

 called naturalists. The general results of his experience of these 

 birds on this and subsequent occasions were eventually communicated 

 to Mr. liewitson, by whose leave tliey liave been transferred to this 

 work (pp. 8-15, 45-50, 58, 59) *, where also may be found parti- 



* In one anticipation Wolley wad wrong. He thought that tlie White-tailed 

 Eagle would hold out longer '• in its sea-girt fortresses " than the inland-breeding 



