432 The Zoologist — October, 1866. 



especially what he jocosely designated my terminating benediction, 

 expressed his great surprise that the flimsy fiction should have 

 escaped detection, which I so instantly discovered, particularly, he ob- 

 served, as this unparalelled imposition had been previously examined 

 by so many experienced naturalists, when, really without any intention 

 of lacerating the thickened cuticle of these self-styled natural-history 

 celebrities, I could not refrain from replying, ' Very true, sir, and I 

 assure you that I am and ought to be grateful.' ' Beaii mouocidi in 

 regione cacorum ' — ' Happy are the one-eyed in the country of the 

 blind.'"— pp. 190— 5. 



With this quotation we must bid the Squire " farewell," until some 

 kindred spirit shall arise, and so hold his mirror up to Nature that 

 we may see a faithful portrait of a man for whom, from our very boy- 

 hood, we have felt the warmest affection. Dr. Hobson has not done 

 this: he mistakes blemishes for beauty-spots; he parades eccentricities 

 as accomplishments ; and he omits those particulars of Waterlon's life 

 and death which would give an intrinsic value to the volume and 

 impart a melancholy interest to the memory of the departed. 



Edward Newman. 



Zoological Notes from Arran. By Edward R. Alston, Esq. 



July, 1866. 



As I am not aware that any account of the fauna of Arran has ever 

 been published, I venture to offer the following notes, collected during 

 a visit in July. Of course I am unable to give full catalogues, but 

 hope to be able to show that the quadrupeds and birds are not devoid 

 of interest, although not presenting such novelties as the geology, 

 botany and marine zoology of that favoured isle. 



The southern reader must bear in mind that Arran is a mountainous 

 island, some forty miles in length by about twenty in breadth. 

 Cultivation is almost entirely confined to a belt round the coast ; while 

 the interior is occupied by wild moors and hills, which rise towards 

 the north into a cluster of lofty granatic mountains, whose shattered 

 and fantastic peaks, inaccessible precipices and deep narrow glens 

 present some of the most magnificent scenery to be found in Scotland. 

 There is but little wood, except thickets of dwarfish birch-trees in the 

 glens, and the plantations around Brodick Castle : but the shore is 

 lined by the ancient " raised beech," a series of low water-worn cliffs 



