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Obituary Memoir of "\Villiam Haddon Beeby, F.L.S. Eev. 



Edward S. Marshall, M.A., F.L.S. 129 



Report on Scottish. Ornithology in 1909 Evelyn V. Baxter 



and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul . . . . . .132 



On the Occurrence of the Eock Thrush (Monticola saxatilis) in 

 the Orkney Islands William Eagle Clarke, F.R.S.E., 

 F.L.S. . .148 



The Insect Fauna of Grouse Moors Percy H. Gfrimshaw, 



F.E.S.E., F.E.S. . . .149 



Scottish Dragonfly Records W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. . . 162 



Contributions to a Flora of the Outer Hebrides. No. 4 



Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. 165 



Notes on Carex Rev. Edward S. Marshall, M.A., F.L.S. . 170 

 On Some Scottish Alpine Forms of Carex P. Eiving, F.L.S. . 174 



Zoological Notes . . . . . . . .181 



The Common Dolphin in Moray Firth Wm. Taylor; Crossbills in 

 Perthshire .Ser Grace the Duchess of Bedford, F.L.S., H.M.B.O.U.; 

 A Peeblesshire specimen of the Chough William Evans, F. R. S. E. ; 

 Crossbills on the North-East Coast of Scotland W. Stewart- 

 Menzics; Golden Oriole in Fife Wm. Eagle Clarice, F.R.S.E., 

 F.L.S. ; Greater Wheatear in the Sol way Area Robert Service ; 

 Arctic Bluethroat in the Clyde Area G. Stout; Dipper in the 

 Island of Barra Wm. L. Macgillivray ; Great Spotted Wood- 

 pecker in Perthshire Hon. Gladys Graham Murray ; Great Spotted 

 Woodpecker in Sutherland Francis G. Gunnis, F.Z.S. ; An 

 Argyllshire Heronry W. 1. Beaumont, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. ; Eider 

 Ducks in Clyde Area/. A. Harvie- Brown, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S.; 

 American Yellow-billed Cuckoo in Argyllshire Hugh S. Gladstone, 

 M.A., F.Z.S., F.R.S.E. ; Notes on Siphonaptera William Evans, 

 F.R.S.E. ; British Orthoptera. 



Botanical Notes and News . . . . . . .185 



Andretea petrophila ; Lycopodium Selago in a strange Habitat Prof. 

 James W. H. Trail, A.M., M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S.; Sarcoscypha 

 protracta Prof. James W. H. Trail, A.M., M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. 



Current Literature . . . . . . . .186 



Book Notices 188 



Darwinism and Human Life Prof. J. Arthur Thomson, M.A. ; The 

 Vertebrate Fauna of Cheshire and Liverpool Bay Edited by T. A. 

 Coward, F.Z.S., luith illustrations by Thomas Baddeley ; A History 

 of Birds W. P. Pycraft, A.L.S., F.Z.S., ^vith an Introduction by 

 Sir Ray Lankcster, K.C.B., F.R.S. ; Life-History and Habits of 

 the Salmon, Sea-Trout, Trout, and other Freshwater Fish P. D. 

 Malloch ; A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera J. W. 

 Tutt, F.E.S.; Colonsay, one of the Hebrides, its Plants, their 

 local Names and Uses Legends, Ruins, and Place-Names Gaelic 

 Names of Birds, Fishes, etc. Climate, Geological Formation, etc. 

 Murdoch M'Neill. 



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