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Iceland Falcon at Sule Skerry.—In January last I received 
a fine adult male Palco islandicus (wing 14.85 ins.=376.65 mm.) 
which had been captured on 19th of the month at Sule Skerry—a 
iow rugged islet or reef lying out in the Atlantic, some 4o miles 
west of the Orkney Island of Hoy—where it arrived in an exhausted 
condition during a hurricane from the north-west. The specimen 
is now in the collection of mounted British birds in the Royal 
Scottish Museum, Edinburgh.—Wmn. EacLEe CLARKE. 
Great or Solitary Snipe in Ayrshire.—It is desirable to put 
on record the occurrence of a male specimen, in fine plumage, of the 
Great or Solitary Snipe, shot here on 8th September of this year by 
Mr David Shaw Kennedy. The bird rose on old pasture land 
much frequented by Common Snipe on the farm of Lower Hall, 
Parish of Muirkirk, and its weight taken by myself was 84 0z. 
This is the first record of a Solitary Snipe in my experience of 
over thirty continuous seasons of snipe shooting here. The 
specimen is being mounted for my collection.—ARcuH. FAIRBAIRN, 
Muirkirk. 
[The specimen, which we have seen, belongs to the pale grey 
phase of plumage, distinguished by Mr Ogilvie-Grant from the 
rufous phase which is perhaps more usual.—Eps. ] 
Hairworms (Nematomorpha) in Scotland.—Two examples 
of these well-known inhabitants of fresh-water pools have recently 
come to my notice, and these very materially increase the known 
range of distribution in Scotland, as related in my earlier account of 
the species (Scot. JVat., 1915). One is a male example of the 
Mottled Hairworm, Gordius villoti (Rosa), and this was found alive 
in a water supply at Kildalton, Port Ellen, Islay, on 19th September 
1921. Hitherto this species has not been found in the western parts 
of Scotland, and the example is the first Hairworm of any kind to 
have been recorded from the Western Isles. 
The second specimen is a male Faceted Hairworm, Fara- 
chordodes violaceus (Baird), found in a sample of water from the 
Peebles district, on 15th June 1920. In the Tweed area I have 
already recorded the species from Berwickshire, but this is the first 
record from Peeblesshire. Both specimens have been added to the 
collections of the Royal Scottish Museum.—James RITCHIE. 
An Anopheline Mosquito in East Lothian.—On rst October 
1921, about 6 p.m., I captured a female Anopheles plumbeus, Steph., 
