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Bank Vole {Evotomys glareolus, Scbreb.). 



As the localities for this Vole given in my former paper 

 are mainly in the vicinity of Edinburgh, the following further 

 localities, in which I have since identified it in other parts of 

 the area, may here be mentioned : — Tynefield, near Dunbar, 

 common about the garden in August and September 1894 

 (a typical example of the Field Vole, Microtus agrestis, was 

 obtained there at same time) ; Dirleton station, a colony on 

 the railway embankment, January 1905; Pendreich, near 

 Bridge of Allan, several trapped, December 1893 ; Cuiross, 

 a few, April 1901 — on the 26th one was observed climbing 

 along the slender branches of a wild rose, and nibbling the 

 young leaves. Traps set in the neighbourhood of Aberfoyle 

 in May 1896 yielded only M. agrestis} » 



Black Eat (Mus rattus, L.). 



Mr J. G. Millais has quite recently described, in the 

 Zoologist (June 1905, p. 205), a new sub-species of this 

 animal, under the name of Mus rattus ater, or Black 

 Alexandrine Eat, and Mr Eagle Clarke informs me that 

 the Black Eats obtained by him in 1890 from a Leith 

 steamer belong to this form and not to the " Old English " 

 Black Eat, which Millais designates Mus rattus rattus. 

 Black Eats occurring in our seaports are likely to be 

 M. r. ater, but any obtained should be carefully identified. 



Mountain Hare {Lepus timidus, L.=Z. variabilis, Pall,). 



Not long after the publication of my Mammalian Fauna 

 of this district, it came to my knowledge that there were 

 Blue Hares on the Lammermoor Hills, and on 12th September 

 1903 I had the pleasure of coming upon one at the head of 

 Faseny Water, about four miles south-east of Gifford, and 

 well within the county of Haddington. On the Moorfoots I 

 met with three, all practically still in the white dress of 

 winter, near the head of Moorfoot Water, on 30th March 



^ In an interesting letter, dated April 1894, the late James Bennie told me 

 that in the arctic plant-bed of the ancient Corstorphine lake he had found a 

 jaw-bone, with the teeth in it, which Mr E. T. Newton had identified as that 

 of a Lemming. 



