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The Scottish Naturalist. 
Scaup {FuUr/tila marila). The Scaup is a true sea-duck and seldom comes 
inland except during very rough weather, I am not aware that it has even 
been obtained near Glasgow before. — Robert H. Read. 
Black Tern in the Firth of Forth.— On 2nd October last Mr. 
J. B. Hunter of Musselburgh shot a young female Black Tern ( Hydrocheli- 
don nigra) in Aberlady Bay. Mr. Hunter tells me it was a single bird, and 
was flying over the sands at low tide. The sex was determined on dissection 
by Mr. Small, Edinburgh, to whom it was sent for preservation. As far as I 
am aware this is but the fifth that has been obtained in the Firth.— William 
Evans, Edinburgh. 
Hoopoe in East Lothian.— On the nth August last a dead Hoopoe 
( Upujpa epops ) was found floating in the east bay. North Berwick, within 200 
or 300 yards of the shore, and sent to Mr. Small for preservation. It was a 
female. When in North Berwick shortly afterwards, I called on the man 
(M'Donell) who picked it up, and ascertained from him the precise locality 
and date. — William Evans, Edinburgh. 
Opah and Sun-Fish in the Forth.— Fine specimens of these fishes 
were captured in the Forth estuary about the 1 2th of October last. 
The Opah {Lampris luna) was found on Pettycur Sands, near Kinghorn, by 
a workman. The Sun-fish [Orthagoriscus mola) was caught at Aberdour by 
a boatman, and weighed two-and-a-half hundredweights. About the middle 
of September I had it reported to me by Mr. Wm. Evans, that several small 
Sun-fish, about 12 inches in length, had been found stranded on the beach at 
North Berwick. 
Both are of uncommon occurrence in, but neither are new to the Firth of 
Forth. — William Eagle Clarke. 
Acanthocinus eedilis, L. at Bo'ness-on-Forth.— In the fourth 
week of September, a male specimen of this fine longicorn beetle was captured 
in a coal pit at Bo'ness at a depth of 150 fathoms.— James Russell Allan* 
Edinburgh. 
[The specimen, which was presented by Mr. Allan to the Edinburgh 
Museum, had no doubt been imported in the larva or pupa state in pit-battens 
of fir-wood, probably from Scandinavia. It is thought to be an indigenous 
species in the fir-forests of the Tay, Dee, and Moray districts. — Ed.] 
Dasypolia templi in the Forth District.— The Brindled Ochre 
Moth would appear to be rare in the district, and has been thrice captured 
by me, namely — one (male) on window at Morningside, Edinburgh, nth Oct., 
1882 ; one (male) at the lantern. Isle of May Lighthouse, 17th Sept., 1885 ; 
and one (female) at rest on trunk of Scotch fir, Bavelaw Wood, near Balerno, 
2ist April, 1888.— William Evans, Edinburgh. 
Is the Range of Nootua sobrina Increasing ?— It is about 
