524 Zoological Notes, by Andrew Brotherston. 



during the summer, when they have plenty of " cover." On 

 March 18th I got one which had been killed by flying against a 

 wire fence at Floors. 



Parasitic Worms.— At p. 288, vol. vii. of " Proceedings," I 

 noticed the occurrence of a cluster of nematoid "Worms, in both 

 legs of a Little Grebe. On Feb. 27, 1878, I had a similar case, 

 but in a different species of bird — an immature female Water- 

 hen. When skinning the legs near where the muscles end and 

 the tendons begin, there was a quantity of gelatinous matter, 

 which, as the bird was in good condition — not like the Grebe in 

 that respect— induced me to examine it carefully, when I found 

 in both legs a number of the same Worms, or a nearly allied 

 species, to those found in the Grebe. The chief differences were 

 in their not being so regularly spiral ; various sizes being inter- 

 mixed ; and in not occurring in such compact clusters. Some of 

 them were entwined and interlaced together ; others, when the 

 lower part of the tibia was pressed from below upwards, came 

 out singly from amongst the tendons with a spiral motion like 

 that of a corkscrew. The Nightjar shot at Sunlaws (see p. 520 

 of present paper) was also infested by similar parasites — inside 

 the chin, and at the bottom of the socket behind the eye. Some 

 of those from the eye were fully three-quarters of an inch in 

 length. 



White Wood-pigeon. — There was one nearly all white, shot 

 at Haddon, in the beginning of April, 1878. 



Great Gray Shrike {Lanius excubitor), Linn. — A male was 

 shot near Swinton, April 5th, 1878. 



Cyclopia in Lambs. — Mr Murray, Kersknowe, sent for preser- 

 vation (April 10th, 1878), a Lamb's head — a regular cyclops, 

 having only one eye in the centre of the forehead. It was only 

 one of about thirty similarly deformed, the whole of them being 

 the offspring of one ram. The eye was as is usual in most cases 

 of the kind, a coalescence of two eyes. All died shortly after 

 birth. 



Common Snipe ( Gallinago gallinaria), Mull. — I saw a nest, with 

 four eggs, of this species on May 1st, 1878, at Lurgie Loch. The 

 nest was placed on a large tuft of Mnium subglobosum in fine fruit. 

 Prom the number of old birds seen, several pairs will breed there 

 annually. It has been thought by some that the Jack Snipe 

 breeds in the district, but, so far as I am aware, there is no 



