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saw here in the Museum (Dunrobin) to be Phoca grmnlandica, 
young." 
Arvicola amphibius {L.). Water-Vole. 
A pied water-vole was killed at Glenrossal on October 3d, 1886. 
Hyperoodon rostratus {Chemnitz). Common Beaked Whale. 
In Dr. Joass' letter to Harvie-Brown just referred to {vide Phoca 
grcenlandica) he says Prof. Sir Wm. Turner referred a skull 
of a beach-driven dolphin from Brora to this species. 
BIKDS. 
Acrocephalus schoenobaenus {L.). Sedge Warbler. 
Heard by Buckley near Loch Stemster in June 1887. 
Phylloscopus trochilus (i.). Willow Wren. 
Heard by Buckley at Stemster in June 1887, and most probably 
occurs in all the patches of wood which generally surround the 
houses of the Caithness lairds. 
Phylloscopus s'\b\\a.\r\-K {Bechst). Wood Wren. 
Scarce, if not altogether absent in the Cassley Strath in 1885, the 
spring of that year being very cold and backward. 
Troglodytes Parvulus, Koch. Common Wren, 
Buckley heard the wren in the woods around Stemster House in 
June 1887. 
Anthus trivialis (i.). Tree Pipit. 
This species has increased very much about Glenrossal since it 
was first observed there in 1875, being quite numerous in the 
seasons of 1886 and 1887. 
