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8.7.54. cont.  S. of Durness, &c. [[strikethrough]] S.S. [[/strikethrough]] N.S. (North not South as labelled! A.W.S. 1963.), cont.

Aphidius spp. 3: only one mtd. = A. cf. pascuorum ♀︎, ant. 17.
Monoctonus caricis ♂︎: not mtd.
Proctos 6: 4 mtd. = Aclista? sp. 2♂︎♂︎.
Leptorhaptus? sp. ♂︎ & another (Ceraphronid?) = 
Chalcids 6: none mtd.
Beetles 2, of which at least one taken on shore under sea-weed: not mtd.
Moth: one of the Swifts = 
Deiptera 2.  Small gad-fly ♂︎ & a clegg = 


9th July 1954.

Another fine day with only a slight drizzle for a few minutes as wind changed about 2 & 4 PM.  Wind light & SW. at 10.30 AM., NW. at 1 PM., SW. at 2 P.M., NW. at 5 PM., S-SE. at 6 PM., with falling glass.  Spent day about Keoldale 2 1/4 miles SW. of Durness on E. shores of the Kyle of Durness where are low, rocky & dangerous cliffs NW. of the ferry pier.  Left hotel at 10.30 & walked via the oor W. of main road past S. end of Borralaodh Loch & on to the cliffs 1/2 mile NW. of Keoldale pier.  Crossed many small rocky scarps many of which are covered with Dryas, Antennaria & Carex capillaris.  On reaching the coast found the sand-covered bluffs swarded with Dryas, Marram Grass, Carex capillaris & other plants:  found the thre mentioned growing together in one square foot of sandy turf.  Loch Borralaodh a fine sheet of water


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9.7.54, cont.  Keoldale area, Durness, cont.

with a large flat island in which many terns (? Common or Arctic) were breeding & several large "duck" flew overhead but not identified.  In the Loch grew Littorella & Myriophyllum & I found the snail Limnaea pereger var boissii (as in the coastal lakes of Co. Donegal), but saw no sign of the mollusca except Succinea pfeifferi under stones above water level.  On these stones took a small black, wingless Ichneumon (= Pezomachus ).  Had lunch at 1 P.M. at base of low, very broken up, cliff on which grew much Dryas & the Orchid Epipactus atrorubens, but most of the plants better down by the sheep & most of the flowering spikes impossible to reach with safety.  Much Juniper, a little Poplar, Asplenium ruta-muraria, Carex capillaris, Rosa spinosissima, & many other plants.  On the wet slopes above the clifs there is much Sax. aizoides & on the sandy areas Marrum Grass & Dryas are often dominant.

Swept insects here & there from Durness to the coast & especially in a little valley filled with Iris, Equisetum &c., which runs down to the coast at the lunch place.  On way to coast crossed - just after leaving main road - [[strikethrough]] the coast [[/strikethrough]] a low marshy area with the remains of a small plantataion of larch, birch, & 1 miserable oak about 8 feet high the tips of whose branches appear to be killed every winter.  In this marshy area where much Equisetum arvense, swept a ♀︎ sawfly;  Loderus.