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and Fitful Head. This district is, however, crossed by the fringe 

 of an important line of migration; the Wryneck passes there, and 

 the Bernacle Goose — till now only recorded as a rare straggler — 

 resorts in numbers every autumn to the Quendale sandhills. Of 

 the Spotted Crake Saxby wrote, " not in Shetland," and only two 

 are recorded (on the October passage) in Saunders's ' Manual ' ; 

 but now we learn that the species is not uncommon in the south, 

 though it is only to be found with the assistance of a dog, and its 

 existence in Mousa was not suspected until 1891, when three 

 were obtained by this means. Mr. Harvie-Brown thinks that 

 some unusually large and heavy Snipe, which arrived towards 

 the end of September, were probably Gallinago major, a species 

 not yet identified, we believe, in the Shetlands. Dr. Traquair 

 describes and figures an unusually coloured example of the 

 Thornback (Raia clavata, Linn.), and Mr. W. Anderson Smith 

 contributes notes on a very rare and interesting species of Star- 

 fish (Astronyx loveni, Muller), from 90 fathoms in the Sound of 

 Sleat, and only once obtained previously in Scottish waters. 

 Readers of the articles in ' The Zoologist ' on the distribution of 

 the Polecat will be interested to learn that several individuals 

 have been taken at Lochinver ; there are notes on the misdeeds 

 of Voles, as might be expected at a time when they are deemed 

 worthy of a nothing less than special Government Commission 

 to Greece; evidence that the Ring Ouzel sometimes remains 

 during the winter in the mild climate of Galloway is adduced by 

 Mr. Robert Service ; a Jackaw's nest in the main-topmast head 

 of the training-ship ' Empress ' is described by Mr. J as. Lumsden ; 

 and there are many other interesting notes. 



Errata. — Page 37, line 2 of the review, for " Hartwig " read " Hertwig " ; 

 line 5, for "Hussey" read "Hersey"; line 9, for "entomologists" read 

 " embryologists." Page 38, line 6, for "Iris" read "His"; line 20, for 

 "langers" read "layer"; line 28, for " Mitsukwi " read " Mitsukuri." 



