254 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



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

 History which have appeared during the Quarter July-September 1911. 



[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 ol the Contributor. The Editors will have nccess to the 

 sources of information undermentioned.] 



ZOOLOGY. 



THE POSSIBILITIES OF BIRD-MARKING, WITH SPECIAL REFER- 

 ENCE TO THE ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY BIRD MIGRATION INQUIRY. 

 A. Landsborough Thomson, M.A., M.B.O.U., Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. 

 Edin., vol. xviii. No. iii. pp. 204-218 (July 1911). 



KITE IN SCOTLAND AND OTHER NOTES. D. P. O. Cleave, 

 Zoologist, August 1911, p. 317. A Kite seen on iSth June about 

 15 miles from Campbeltown. The Osprey, Hen-harrier, and other 

 birds are also recorded in this note. 



NOTES ON THE RECENT IMMIGRATION OF MEALY REDPOLLS 

 (ACANTHIS LINARIA). William Evans, F.R.S.E., M.B.O.U., Proc. 

 Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin., vol. xviii. No. iii. pp. 196-203 (July 1911). 



GREEN SANDPIPER IN SOUTH HARRIS. A. T. A. Ritchie, The 

 Field, 26th Aug. 1911, p. 528. Example shot on 3rd Aug., on a 

 marsh beside Loch Ossigary, near Rodel. 



VANESSA CARDUI IN N. MAVINE, SHETLAND. James Waterston, 

 Ent. Mo. Mag., Sept. 1911, p. 217. Specimen seen on 25th July 

 at Ollaberry. 



STERRHA SACRARIA IN SCOTLAND. L. G. Esson, Entomologist, 

 Sept. 1911, p. 299. Female captured on iSth August, at 

 Aberdeen. 



A NEW BRITISH HALIPLUS. F. Balfour Browne, F.Z.S., Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., July 1911, p. 153. The new species is named nontax 

 and is reported to occur in Scotland. 



A REVISION OF THE BRITISH SPECIES OF LIODES, LATREILLE 

 (ANISOTOMA, BRIT. CAT.). Norman H. Joy, M.R.C.S., F.E.S., Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., July and Aug. 1911, pp. 166-179. L. stenocoryphe, sp. 

 nov., described from specimens taken at Forres ; L. picea also 

 recorded from the same locality. 



