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of its body was immersed. My attention was then called off to a number of wild ducks 

 flying towards me, and I retreated behind the wall, in hopes of getting a shot at them, 

 which gave the hare an opportunity of escaping, and when I again looked over, she 

 had just landed, and was bending her course over the adjoining marsh. — Johr Atkin- 

 son ; Layer Marney, near Kelvedon, Essex, October 21, 1843. 



A Fauna of Moray. By the Rev. G. Gordon. 



The following lists are transmitted to * The Zoologist,' in order to 

 give its readers some idea of the Fauna of Moray, a province of Scot- 

 land from which there has as yet been no communication to its inte- 

 resting pages. 



The Province of Moray lies on the north side of the Grampian range, 

 is " drained on the east by the Spey and its tributaries, on the west 

 by the Beauly, — is bounded on the north by the Moray Frith, and on 

 the south by a line running from Loch Spey to Loch Monar, the 

 course of which is regulated by the water-shears between the east and 

 west coasts." 



This district has not been so minutely examined by the zoologist 

 as it deserves. Combining on its varied surface almost every degree 

 of temperature, cultivation, and level that are to be found in Scotland, 

 its alpine range and fertile plains, its inland lakes and its waters of 

 the German ocean, its hill and dale, its primeval forests and modern 

 plantations, its shady bowers and muirland wastes, must be the ha- 

 bitats of many a species, of the minuter tribes, that has not yet been 

 detected by the prying eye of the naturalist. And it is hoped that 

 observers and collectors, whether resident or visiting, will communi- 

 cate to this journal such additions to the following lists as have or may 

 come under their notice. The admirable plan upon which ' The Zo- 

 ologist' is conducted, affords every facility for such a record, and the 

 Elgin Museum, lately opened, a no less suitable receptacle for the 

 objects themselves. In former times, when there was no such oppor- 

 tunity of recording the discovery or of preserving the specimen itself, 

 many a zoological rarity has doubtless been found within this pro- 

 vince, when, if it attracted any attention at all, it was turned over and 

 over by the hands of the curious, then left to dissolve into its constitu- 

 ent elements on the spot. At times an effort was made, if small in 

 itself and vivid in its colours, to submit it to the inspection perhaps of 

 some neighbouring surgeon or some one who had perchance been be- 

 yond the Tweed, or travelled in foreign climes. But, nailed to the 

 most conspicuous gable of the homestead, or the less elevated kiln- 



