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occurrence at Mayfield in Berwickshire (Proceedings of the 
Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, vol. i., p. 214). Faldonside is 
another Border locality, in which, according to Dr Hardy (op. 
cit., x., 278), it was abundant in 1883. During the last four 
years I have observed it at Rosetta and other places near 
Peebles, and Mr John Thomson has sent me one from Stobo, 
a few miles higher up the Tweed, where he tells me it is 
common about potatoe-pits during winter. 
Seeing so little has been recorded of the Bank Vole in the 
neighbourhood of Edinburgh, the following facts from my own 
experience may not be without interest. In January 1886 
I obtained one which had been killed by a weasel in Dalmeny 
Park, close to the Cramond ferry, and I then learned from 
the ferryman that the animal was common in the park, and 
did considerable damage during winter and spring to carna- 
tions and other flowering plants in his garden. The same 
complaint is made against it by Mr Bruce, gardener, Colinton 
House, from whom I have received many examples, and Mr 
Mackenzie, factor, Mortonhall, has also found it very trouble- 
some in his garden of late. From Cramond I have obtained a 
number of very typical specimens, one of which I exhibited at 
a meeting of the Royal Physical Society on 15th January 1890, 
Since then I have trapped numbers in the following localities, 
namely, by the banks of the Braid burn below Comiston, on 
the Braid hills, by the roadside between Fairmilehead and 
Kaimes, at Dreghorn, at Lothianburn, and on the south side 
of the Pentlands, both by the roadside beyond Hillend and in 
the young plantation on the hill-side at Boghall. I have also 
obtained it at Gosford, in East Lothian. A bank on the 
sunny side of a wall is a favourite habitat, especially if well 
clothed with tussocks of cock’s-foot grass (Dactylis glomerata). 
They may be seen sitting near the entrances to their burrows 
at all hours of the day, but the afternoon seems to be the time 
of their greatest activity. On a winter’s day, if the sun has 
been bright, I can always depend on seeing numbers towards 
sunset feeding by the roadside which skirts the southern 
confines of Mortonhall grounds. As the spring advances 
they may be observed climbing the briars, thorns, and 
sapling elms, and nipping off the expanding leaf-buds. 
