Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

ZOOLOGICAL NOTES 119
CAREX KATTEGATENSIS, Fr. Bank of the Thurso River, July 1875,
G. Horn, in Herb. !
Syme.
This has not been reported for the Thurso River ; only for the
Wick River. Could Mr. Horn have mixed his specimens?
C. AQUATILIS x KATTEGATENSIS, Fr. = C. Grant//, Ar. Benn. Wick
River; F. J. Hanbury in Herb. Bennett; "Journal of Botany,"
1897, p. 250.
C. CAPILLARIS, L. Moss, Holborn Head, Reeves and Ward,
specimen.
ATHYRIUM F.-FCEMINA, var. MOLLE, Roth.
Dunnet Head, R. Dick.
\tLycopodium inundatiim, L. By implication, Robert Dick would
seem to have found this in the county; see Smiles, "Life of
Robert Dick," p. 296.]
CHARA VULGARIS, Z., var. MELANOPYRENA, H. and J. Groves.
Mossy ditch, Ben Dorrery, August 1880, Dr. Davidson !
ZOOLOGICAL NOTES.
The Weasel in Jura. On 3oth October 1895 I noticed
a Weasel (JMustehi vnlgaris) on the sill of a window near which I
sat writing. I had a good view, within a few feet, of the little
creature's deliberate retirement, tail towards me. On inquiry in
Jura I found that a man 1 have known well for about twenty years,
and employed as a yacht-hand, had taken a Jura Weasel in 1892
while trapping rabbits. The year
is
impressed on his memory
because it was the first winter he worked in Jura. He knows the
Weasel well from experience on the mainland.
He has been trapping rabbits in Jura each winter since 1892,
and during the past season he saw two Weasels, and at once baited
a trap on or about 24th December 1899. On ist January 1900
Miss Isabella Campbell, for whom he was trapping, sent him up to
me with a fresh-caught Weasel. He has not been :.ble, so far, to
secure another or the other. The captured specimen
is now in
the Cambridge Museum of Zoology. The traps are set solely for
rabbits, but Stoats have sometimes strayed into them, and in 1892
a Weasel did so. My impression is that Weasels are pretty rare in
Jura, though my man tells me that he saw two in 1897. . Stoats, on
the other hand, are fairly
common there. Mr. Martin of Dunlossit,
Islay, has promised to keep a look-out for AVeasels in Islay he is
;
quite familiar with them, and his home gamekeeper knows them
also. H. EVANS, Jura Forest.
Badgers in the Lothians. In connection with the future
distribution of Meles taxus in the Lothians,
it may be interesting to