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Scottish Pansies. Of the twenty-three "species" in Mr. 

 Brabble's paper on " British Pansies " in the Journal of Botany 

 Supplement, the following are named in the paper as seen by him 

 from Scotland : Group I. Arvenses, V. segetalis, Jordan, Selkirk 

 (79), Kincardine (91), E. Sutherland (107), V. obtusifolia, Jordan, 

 Elgin (95); V. rurali, Jordan, Dumfries (72), Berwick (81), Kin- 

 cardine (91); V. derelicta, Jordan, Mid-Perth (88), Forfar (90), 

 S. Aberdeen (92), Banff (94), Orkney (m); V. Lloydii, Jordan, 

 Forfar (90), Kincardine (91), S. Aberdeen (92), W. Ross (105), 

 Caithness (109); V. alpestris, Jordan, Selkirk (79); V. lepida, 

 Jordan, Roxburgh (80), Berwick (81), Kincardine (91), S. Aberdeen 

 (92), Elgin (95), Easterness (96), Westerness (97), Argyle (98), 

 East Ross (106); V. lutea, Huds. (including var. amoena), Dumfries 

 (72), Selkirk (79), Stirling (86), M. Perth (88), E. Perth (89), 

 Forfar (90), S. Aberdeen (92), Westerness (97), Argyle (98), 

 V. Curtisii, Forster (including Pesneaui and subulosa), S. Aberdeen 

 (92), Clyde Isles (100), Mid Ebudes (103), W. Sutherland (108), 

 Caithness (109). 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



The Titles and Purport of Papers and Notes relating to Scottish Natural 

 History which have appeared during the Quarter October-December 1909. 



[The Editors desire assistance to enable them to make this Section as complete as 

 possible. Contributions on the lines indicated will be most acceptable, and 

 will bear the initials of the Contributor. The Editors will have access to the 

 sources of information undermentioned.] 



ZOOLOGY. 



NOTES ON THE SUMMER BIRDS OF SHISKIN, ARRAN, 1909. 

 T. Thornton Mackeith. The Glasgow Naturalist, vol. ii. No. i 

 (Nov. 1909), pp. 20-24. Eighty-eight species are recorded. 



THE STOCK-DOVE (COLUMBA CENAS, LINN.) IN THE CLYDE 

 AREA. Robert S. and Hugh W. Wilson. The Glasgoiv Naturalist, 

 vol. i. pt. iv. (Sept. 1909), pp. 101-110. Gives a summary of the 

 distribution of this species in the various counties. 



HOOPOE (UPUPA EPOPS) IN LANARKSHIRE. Geo. W. Campbell. 

 The Glasgow Naturalist, vol. i. pt. iv. (Sept. 1909), p. 145- Speci- 

 men picked up near Leadhills on June i, 1909. 



FULMAR (FULMARUS GLACIALIS) IN AYRSHIRE AND FIFE. John 

 Paterson. The Glasgow Naturalist, vol. i. pt. iv. (Sept. 1909), p. 145. 

 Specimen picked up dead on July 4, 1909, on the shore between 

 King's Barns and Cambo. 



