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Weasel, are now almost exterminated in this district, and 

 accordingly rats, mice, &c, their natural prey, are becoming- 

 more numerous. When so many protective laws are made 

 for birds (many of which do not require anything of the sort, 

 especially the small ones, since their natural enemy, the 

 sparrow hawk, is destroyed on every opportunity), there 

 ought also to be something of the same kind done for 

 weasels and stoats. Although they may sometimes take a 

 rabbit or a hare, the number of destructive vermin destroyed 

 by them will much more than counterbalance anything in 

 the shape of game they kill. 



Food of the Mountain Finch ( Fringilla montifringilla). 

 — I can confirm the statement made at p. 427, "Proc," 1872, 

 that this bird feeds on the beech mast. " Cock of the North" 

 is the local name for it here. 



Honey Buzzard. — At p. 322 of last year's "Proceedings" 

 it is stated that there was a Honey Buzzard killed at 

 Newtondon in May, 1867 ; and at p. 435, another shot May 

 22nd, 1865. This is apt to mislead. They both refer to the 

 same bird, the latter being the correct date. 



List of Tiveedside Plants, mostly of recent introduction. 

 By Andrew Brotherston. 



All the plants in the following list, except Potamogeton 

 flabellatus (?) and, perhaps, the Chenopodiums, have most 

 probably been introduced to this district. Those marked 

 thus, * and possibly some of the others, have been brought 

 with wool, the rest with farm and garden seeds. I am much 

 obliged to Professor Thistleton Dyer, who determiner! most 

 of the foreign species. 



Bantjncttltts abvensis (L.), var. ineemis. Sparingly on cultivated 

 ground, and Tweedside, Kelso. "A form not hitherto detected 

 in Britain." (Professor Thistleton Dyer.) 



Fumaria micrantha, Lag. Abundant in cornfields about 

 Ednam. 



