424 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Late Sray or Swirrs.—Swifts have stayed very late with us this year. 
There were three nests, and I think four, or perhaps five, contained young 
in September, for I heard the young twittering when the old ones flew into 
the nests on September 3rd. I think they took their departure on the 5th. 
There were a good many flying about very busy, but to-day (the 6th) 
I have not seen one. I think it almost certain that they have hatched 
twice this year—W. Purnewt (Henley-on-Thames). 
Tue ParmateD Newt IN KirkcupBRiGHTsHIRE.—On the 2nd July 
last, when ascending Cairnsmore of Fleet, I was agreeably surprised to find 
the Palmated Newt (Triton palmatus, Dum. et Bib.) in abundance in a few 
bog-holes near the summit, at an elevation of over 2000 feet. I did not 
find them lower down the mountain, nor do I know of any other locality in 
this county where they occur. The holes in which I found them were 
quite shallow, and almost filled up with Sphagnum moss, through which the 
Newts had great difficulty in making their way. Compared with other 
species, these Newts appeared to me to be much more sluggish, and I had 
no difficulty in capturing as many as I wanted with my hand.—Roserr 
Srrvice (Maxwelltown, Dumfries, N. B.). 
Appitions to THE British Fish Fauna.—In the exceedingly useful 
handbook of the ‘ Vertebrate Fauna of Yorkshire,’ recently published, is a 
list of the British fish fauna, compiled from the most reliable and 
satisfactory authority. To this I should like to add the names of a few 
more species which have fallen under my observation :— 
Gobius pictus, Malm. Mr. Alired Walker, of Cherton, sent me a 
beautiful example which he had captured in Colwyn Bay, Wales, some 
years since. 
Crystallogobius Nilssonii. In May, 1868, Mr. Edward, of Banff, 
obtained an example, which is referred to in the ‘Life of a Scotch 
Naturalist,’ pp. 375, 427. Having applied to Mr. Edward, he has been so 
obliging as to lend me his specimen, a fine male, which I have figured for 
my next nuuber of ‘ British Fishes.’ 
Coregonus oxyrhynchus. In the Proc. Zool. Soc., 1877, p. 419, 
I noticed a British example. In March, 1880, I received from the late 
Mr. Frank Buckland one taken at Chichester, which was recorded at the 
time; as was also another in February, this year, from the Medway. 
Mr. Gill considered a fish received from the West Indies, and named 
Euoxymetopon teniatus, to be identical with Hoy’s fish, captured in 1812 
off the coast of Scotland—a conclusion also arrived at by Dr. Giinther 
