102 Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society. 
West of Scotland,” p. v.), it is not uncommon in the Upper 
Ward of Lanarkshire. 
As these pages are passing through the press, I learn from 
Mr Eagle Clarke that a specimen has been sent to him by Mr 
Wm. Berry of Tayfield, Newport, who captured it on 2nd 
November (1891) on Tentsmuir, Fife. | 
CROSSOPUS FODIENS (Pallas). WaATER SHREW. 
With us the Water Shrew is widely, though somewhat 
locally, distributed, but is nowhere abundant. I have records 
of its occurrence during the last four or five years in several 
parts of East Lothian and Midlothian; also in Linlithgow- 
shire, Stirlingshire, Peeblesshire, and Fifeshire, and it has 
been observed by Dr Hardy to enter his own house at Old- 
cambus, Berwickshire (Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, viii., p. 527). 
Through the attention of the Messrs Campbell, I have 
recently had opportunities of examining several in the flesh, 
captured both in summer and winter in Dalmeny Park, and 
have found them all to be more or less of the typical form 
with the light underparts, which is the common form in the 
more inland localities also. Mr Bruce has taken it in 
the grounds of Colinton House, at a considerable distance 
from water. One found dead by my children on the path 
close to the Braid burn at Greenbank farm, on 10th July 
1890, was of the variety with the dark underparts—the Sorex 
remifer of MacGillivray’s “ British Quadrupeds.” I have 
obtained several by means of the “Cyclone” traps baited 
with cheese. , 
Alston (“Scottish Mammalia,” p. 10) gives the credit of 
adding the Water Shrew to the Scottish list to Dr Scoular of 
Glasgow. As long ago, however, as 1808 it was known to 
Patrick Neill as an inhabitant of the Esk at Habbie’s Howe, 
near Carlops (vide his list of animals and plants, contributed to 
the 1808 edition of Allan Ramsay’s “Gentle Shepherd,” vol. i., 
p- 269); and in 1812 Fleming, in his “ Contributions to the 
British Fauna,” published in the Wernerian Society's Memoirs 
(vol. iL, p. 238), stated that it was then “by no means 
rare in the county of Fife.” Its presence near Abbotsford 
