The Scottish Naturalist, 
man, of the Geological Survey of Scotland, who sent me a number 
of species from Tomintoul. I have since received from Mr. J. 
Charles Smith, of Penrith, a number of shells collected by him at 
Aberlour. They are : Vitrina pellucida, Zonites alliarius and var. 
viridula, Z. nitidulus^ *Z. purus var. margaritacea^ *Z. fulvus, Z. 
crystallinus var. contracfa, Helix arbustorum, * Vertigo edentula, 
Clausula rugosa^ Zua lubrica, and, from the River Spey, Banff, * Unio 
7fiargaritifer and ^Anodonta cygncea. Of these, the five marked 
with the asterisk are additional to the list given in my " Census," 
and raise the number of authenticated Banffshire species from 
19 to 24. 
I may add that Mr. Smith has most kindly presented the speci- 
mens to the Conchological Society, which body is making a series 
of county collections, and will be pleased to have any amount of 
assistance in this direction. 
Shells of North Ebudes.— The Rev. J. McMurtrie, M.A., 
D.D., of Edinburgh, has recently forwarded for the Conchological 
Society's collections a fine series of the Shells of the Island of 
Eigg, illustrative of an excellent paper which he has sent to be 
read before the Society, giving full details of the relative abun- 
dance or scarcity, etc., and which will be in due time printed in the 
Society's organ, the "Journal of Conchology." I will not antici- 
pate this further than to say that the collection includes examples 
of 29 species, of which no less than the following 20 are new to 
the vice-county of North Ebudes, and raise its authenticated 
fauna to 31 species : Arion ater, A. siibfuscus^ Limax arborum, 
Zonites cellarius, Z. alliarius^ Z. purus, Z. radiatulus^ Z, crystallinus^ 
Z. fulvus^ Helix aspersa, H nemoralis, H. hortensis, H. arbus- 
torum, H. sericea, H. fusca^ H. ericetorum^ Pupa ringens^ P. umbili- 
cata, Clausilia rugosa, and Zua lubrica. The example set by Mr. 
Smith and Mr. McMurtrie is one which I hope will have many 
imitators, and I shall be only too pleased to have the opportunity 
of sending to the Scottish Naturalist a regular succession of notes 
under this heading. The counties from which records are most 
desired are the following: South Ebudes, Shetland Islands, North 
Aberdeen, Orkney, Hebrides, West Ross, Mid Ebudes, Wester- 
ness, from none of which have we had the opportunity of authen- 
ticating more than a score of species ; while in the South I may 
name Dumfriesshire and Wigtonshire as areas from which we 
have seen but very little more. 
