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leaves in July. This species also occurs at Kinloch in similar 

 situations. Continuing our walk, we pass the bridge over the 

 burn which is the largest running into the lake on the south. 

 There is much bold scenery up this burn, and good collecting. 

 The pretty house to the right is Cross Craig Cottage, the resi- 

 dence of Mrs. Eobertson. In the birch wood to the left, among 

 long grass, Erebia blandina is often common at the end of July. 

 The large birch trees on either side of the road which runs 

 through the wood, although near the lake, will doubtless even 

 now bear the marks of the entomologists' sugar, for this is the 

 best sugaring-ground of all in Rannoch, and where one may get 

 Noctua sobrina, Aplecta occulta, and other rarities. We must, 

 however, pass on, and as we look over to the other side of the 

 loch we can see the village of Killichonan facing south. 

 Although the hills on that side look tempting enough, I never 

 found anything to repay the time spent upon them. 



We will now hurry on, for we have four miles further before 

 reaching the loch-head. There is little new to be found on the 

 way, for such insects as we find after passing the last birch wood 

 are to be obtained elsewhere, and nearer our hotel. Chortobius 

 darns is common on the moors here (July), and many are 

 very fine examples ; but these occur also up the Innerhadden 

 Burn. After passing the little kirk of Finnart we see the large 

 house at the head of the loch. This is Rannoch Lodge, the 

 residence of Sir Robert Menzies, to whom belongs the whole 

 north side of the lake. 



We have now walked some eighteen or twenty miles, and I need 

 hardly say feel thoroughly tired. We have not met with a single 

 public-house of refreshment on the journey ; nor are we any better 

 off now, for there is no inn here. We may, however, persuade one 

 of the "guid folk" in the little village to give us some tea and 

 scones, and allow us to wait for the driver of the post-car, who 

 will give us a lift if we have previously arranged with him, and 

 take us back to Kinloch by the north side of the lake. 



Having given intending visitors a general idea of Rannoch, I 

 have little more now to add as regards the collecting-ground. 

 The best, as I have said, is on the south of the loch, and extends 

 anywhere from the lake-shore right over the mountains to Glen 

 Lyon, as is most convenient to the collector ; and, if this be his 

 first visit to Scotland, let him take a series of every species he 



