I 3 2 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



specific difference between Valeriana officinalis, L. (Mikanii, 

 Syme) and V. sambucifolia, Mikan. His Shetland Cerastium 

 arcticum, Lange, var. Edmondstonii (C. nigrescens, Bab., 

 prius), which kept constant as long as it was grown in a pot 

 of its native serpentine earth, reverted to type on being 

 transplanted into ordinary garden soil. 



WEST MONKTON RECTORY, TAUNTON, 

 6th April 1910. 



REPORT ON SCOTTISH ORNITHOLOGY 



IN 1909. 



By EVELYN V. BAXTER and LEONORA JEFFREY RINTOUL. 



As a foreword to the Report, we desire to thank very 

 cordially all those who have rendered its preparation possible 

 by sending schedules and notes. These contain much that 

 is of interest, and every item is of value ; we hope that those 

 who have helped in the past will continue to do so and that 

 other observers may be induced to give their kindly aid. 

 Our thanks are due to Lewis Dunbar, Thurso ; John S. 

 Tulloch, Lerwick ; Her Grace the Duchess of Bedford and 

 William Eagle Clarke, Fair Isle; T. Henderson, junr., Spiggie; 

 The Lightkeepers, Sule Skerry ; John Bain, Pentland 

 Skerries, all in the northern group of localities ; to A. 

 Harley, Kirkcaldy ; William Evans, Edinburgh ; S. E. 

 Brock, Kirkliston ; William F. Little, West Calder ; Rev. 

 H. N. Bonar, Saltoun ; Annie C. Jackson, East Ross ; John 

 Maccuish and ourselves, Isle of May ; Lewis N. G. Ramsay, 

 Aberdeen ; Arthur G. Davidson, Aberdeen ; and A. Landes- 

 borough Thomson, Aberdeen, on the East ; and to John Muir, 

 Skerryvore ; Robert Clyne, Butt of Lewis ; Robert Anderson, 

 Flannan Islands ; Peter Anderson, Tiree ; James M'Quarrie, 

 Davaar Lighthouse ; John Craig, Beith ; B. S. Macmichael, 

 Craignish ; Lady Fowler, West Ross ; Rev. J. D. W. Gibson, 

 Carmichael ; James Bartholomew, Beattock ; D. Macdonald, 

 Tobermory ; W. E. Frost, Monach Islands ; and Charles H. 

 Alston. Loch Awe, on the West. We are indebted to the 



