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loose earns, and in Glen Ogle above Loch Earn, but it is doubtful 

 if they now exist there. It thus appears that the Badger has 

 become rarer or extinct in the north and a great part of the south 

 of the county; also in the south-east and east, but retains a 

 hold in the west and central portions. Again, in the south-east, 

 one was caught about seventeen or twenty years ago (say 

 1860 — 63) by a poacher named Frank Morgan, along with two 

 others, Peter Allison and John Pryde (all still alive), who caught 

 the said Badger in a common Hare-net at a gate. It was kept 

 alive, but again escaped. This happened on the Estate of 

 Cromlix. 



Dumbartonshire. — In 1873 Mr. John Colquhoun, in his ' Ferae 

 Naturas of the British Isles,' wrote, "Each rocky earn capping the 

 Glenfalloch range of the Grampians has its family of Badgers." 

 How far this is true at present I cannot exactly say, but I do not 

 think they are now so generally abundant. In Arrochar, how- 

 ever, they are still very plentiful, and are unmolested. There are 

 many colonies between Arrochar and Luss, and on the hills of 

 Glenfalloch ; the whole ground being rooted up by them, as I am 

 informed by Mr. Colquhoun. He adds, "There have been Badgers 

 in Glenfinlas from time immemorial, though in all probability 

 they will in time be rooted out." 



(To be continued.) 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS ON BRITISH 



STALK-EYED CRUSTACEA. 



By John T. Carrington, F.L.S., and Edwaijd Lovett. 



(Continued from vol. v., p. 461.) 



Pilumnus hirtellus, Leach. 



Being the only British representative of this genus, it will 

 not be necessary to consider separately the generic features of 

 this species. It is somewhat diminutive in size, scarcely attaining, 

 and rarely exceeding, an inch in breadth of carapace. The latter 

 is of very compact form, rather convex, and covered on the anterior 

 portion with closely-set hairs. The anterior margin is denticu- 

 lated and the lateral margins are straight, narrowing towards the 



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