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NOTES AND QUEEIES. 



MAMMALIA. 



The Hedgehog in the West of Scotland. — Lest it may lead to 

 future confusion, may I point out that my Loch Maree record of a 

 Hedgehog (' Zoologist,' ante p. 75) was in 1887 — on April 13th- — not 

 1888, as, owing to a slip of the pen, twice quoted by Mr. Harvie- 

 Brown in his interesting remarks on the animal's distribution in the 

 'Zoologist' for the present month. As the locality is on the west 

 of the backbone of Scotland, I may add that a friend has just told 

 me that upwards of seventeen years ago, previous to which he resided 

 at Dunure, in Ayrshire, he was accustomed to see a few Hedgehogs 

 killed by the keeper in that district every year. He adds that he 

 thinks "the damp climate of the Western Highlands may have 

 something to do with the comparative scarcity of the animal on that 

 side of Scotland." — George Bolam. 



Me. Habvie-Beown asks for "records" {ante, p. 107), and the 

 following extract from my note-book may be of use, viz. : — "June 

 30th, 1901, Ardbhan Craigs, Oban ; Hedgehog seen and handled on 

 the grassy tops not far from Pulpit Hill — seemed very torpid or indo- 

 lent." — Hugh Boyd Watt (77, Parliament Hill, Hampstead, N.W.). 



The Marten in Lincolnshire. — In reference to the note on this now 

 rare animal by the Eev. P. L. Blathwayt in ' Zoologist ' {ante, p. 107) 

 may I say that in September, 1909, I saw a stuffed specimen in the 

 possession of Mr. George Frudcl, of Sleaford, killed in that locality 

 " some years ago " (I have no more definite information regarding 

 it), and was informed by that gentleman that he thought he had 

 seen one at large there only a few years previously to 1909. Nothing 

 more was heard of it, but it seems almost impossible that any other 

 wild animal could have been mistaken for a Marten at comparatively 

 close quarters. — George Bolam. 



A VE S. 



Occurrence of Greenland Falcon in Co. Mayo. — On the 2nd inst. 

 a very fine specimen of a female Greenland Falcon was shot by a 

 young lady on the Island of Bartragh, Killala Bay. She first 



