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following, which I find entered in my note-book : — One found 

 dead among heather, on south side of Caerketton, Pentland 

 Hills, 23rd November 1892 ; one lying on path. Braid Burn, 

 Edinburgh, 1st April 1896 ; two watched for a considerable 

 time, chasing each other about a low-growing juniper bush 

 on Swanston Hill, Pentlands, 26th May 1898 ; one dead on 

 roadside, G-reenbank, Morningside, 5th February 1899. 

 When digging out a bee's nest on a bank at Bavelaw Moss, 

 Balerno, in August 1903, 1 came upon a Lesser Shrew hiding 

 in an adjoining hole. 



Water Sheew (Crossopus focliens (Pall.) ). 



On 24th April 1893, my son and I caught a Water Shrew 

 alive in a flooded quarry between Winchburgh and 

 Hopetoun. Though every care was taken of it, it died 

 after thirty-one days' confinement. On 6th July 1894, 

 several were seen by me in Bilston Burn, near Seafield, 

 Eoslin. In June 1899, the Braid Burn colony was met 

 with five or six hundred yards farther down than where I 

 used previously to see them: this year, however, they have 

 reappeared in the old haunt. Mr Millais possesses a 

 specimen of the dark-bellied variety, from a ditch at Loch 

 Leven {Mammals of Great Britain and Ireland, vol. i. p. 157). 



The Water Shrew has been noted on the Carron, Stirling- 

 shire, by Mr Harvie-Brown. 



Mole (Talfa europcea^ L.). 



The excavation of many more "fortresses" has amply 

 confirmed my original observations and illustration 

 {Mammalian Fauna, etc., 1892, p. 32), showing that the 

 arrangement of the galleries and other tunnels are very far 

 from being symmetrical or uniform in plan. The subject has 

 also recently been investigated by Mr Lionel Adams {Memoirs 

 and Proceedings Manchester Lit. and Phil. Soc, xlvii., 1903), 

 whose excellent observations^ and figures are quoted by 

 Sir H. Johnston and Mr Millais in their respective books. 



^ Some further observations ou the Mole by Mr Adams will be found in 

 the said Memoirs for 1906. 



