Volume 9 - Electric Scotland

ZOOLOGICAL NOTES 243
On the rocks of the Castle Hill
Lichen miniatus.
Typha latifolia. In Lochend Loch.
26. Chara vulgaris.
as also of the Kings Park.
In a ditch at a marsh near mire
side.
hispida.
In and at Do.
27. Fontinalis squamosa. With the two former.
Polytrichum subrotundum.
On stones in the Kings Park.
July
i.
Polygonum persicaria.
Achillea ptarmica.
Tri folium medea.
Epilobium hirsutum.
Carduus acanthoides.
3. Centaurea cyanus. Among corns.
"
Chrysanthemum segetum.
With Do.
Cardamine amara. At the Water of Leeth near the
new well.
Nymphaea alba.
In Lochend Loch.
lutea. In Do.
Potomageton lucens In Do.
Artemesia vulgaris. Among corns.
(To be continued.}
ZOOLOGICAL NOTES.
Great Gray Seal at Cumbrae. On the forenoon of Saturday,
8th September last, in company with Mr. W. Wallace, B.Sc., St.
Andrews, and while dredging off the old castle, island of Little
Cumbrae, I had the pleasure of seeing a magnificent specimen of
the Great Grey Seal (Halichtzrus gryphus) rise to the surface within
less than thirty yards of our boat. It remained on the surface for
at least five minutes, watching all our movements just as closely
as we watched it,
and seemed to have no fear of us. We could
distinctly see its eyes and the gray mottled fur of its head and neck
as it leisurely turned its head from side to side, following our every
turn, apparently quite oblivious of its own safety. It was probably
a solitary animal, as we saw no companion but the same individual
;
appeared twice again, close inshore, within the next quarter of an
hour. It was seen later on the same afternoon by another boating
party, about two miles farther east on the opposite (Ayrshire) coast.
The last local record I have of the animal is from the little island