The Zoologist — April, 1867. 667 



" For I do fear 

 When every feather sticks in his own wing 1 , 

 Lord Timon will be left a naked gull." 



Timon of Athens, Act ii. Scene 1. 



" And sometimes I'll get thee young sca-mells from the rock." 



Tempest, Act ii. Scene 2. 



Sea-inell no doubt is synonymous with sea-mall or sea-mew. In 

 Macgillivray's * Manual of British Birds,' we find " sea-mew, maw, or 

 moll," given as names for the common gull. 



We have now reviewed to the best of our ability the information 

 afforded us by the Plays of Shakespeare on the subject of our British 

 birds. The inquiry, at first sight, may have appeared trivial, but now 

 that we have concluded our task, and have seen what an extensive 

 knowledge in one branch only of Natural History was possessed by our 

 great poet, our admiration for him as a poet must be increased tenfold 

 on perceiving that the beauteous thoughts which he has clothed in 

 such beauteous language were dictated by a pure love of Nature, and 

 by a study of those great truths which appeal at once to the heart and 

 to reason, and which infuse into the soul of the naturalist the true 

 spirit of poetry. 



J. E. Harting. 



Kingsbury, Middlesex. 



Notes on the Quadrupeds of Lanarkshire. 

 By Edward R. Alston, Esq. 



(Concluded from S. S. 242.) 



In concluding these notes, I propose now to give a list of the 

 species met with in this part of Scotland, with references to my 

 previous notes on them. The nomenclature and arrangement adopted 

 are those of Prof. Bell's standard work on ' British Quadrupeds.' 



Common Bat (Vespertilio pipistrellus, Geoff.). — Is our commonest 

 species, though hardly so abundant with us as in some places. 



Longeared Bat (Plecotus auritus, Geoff.). — This pretty bat is also 

 not uncommon, and is the only other species which I have met with. 

 Daubenton's bat (J 7 . Daubentoni) has been taken more than once in 

 Scotland, and other species would probably be found if the subject 

 were properly investigated. 



