268 



ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



notes on "A Bill to amend the 



Wild Birds' Protection Act, 1880," 



76 

 Newton's memoir, on Mr. E. T., "On 



some new Reptiles from the Elgin 



Sandstones," 88 

 Newts, Scottish, wanted, 116 

 Noctuce in Forfarshire (Curr. Lit.), 6 1 

 Notidanns griscus off Orkney coast, 



258 ; on the West Coast of Scot- 



land, 182 

 Nyctea scandiaca in Shetland, 113 



Obituary. ALEXANDER STEPHEN 

 WILSON, C. E. , 52 ; Rev. GEORGE 

 GORDON, M.A., LL.D., 54; 

 JOHN ROY, LL.D., 72 



Odonestes potatoria in South Perth, 184 



Orbilia seal tea, Massee, 188 



Orobanche in Scotland, notes on the 

 genus (Curr. Lit.), 127 



Owl, Short-eared, in Solway, (Curr. 

 Lit. ), 260 ; Snowy, in Shetland, 



Palaospondylus Gunni, Traq. , from the 

 Caithness Flagstones, 94 ; (Curr. 

 Lit.), 261 



Pamphilius erythrocephalus at Dalguise, 

 184 



Parka decipiens, notes on, 123 



Passer montanits in North Uist (Curr. 

 Lit.), 59 



PATEKSON, JOHN, nesting of the Tufted 

 Duck in Renfrew and Wigtownshire, 

 179 ; Kingfisher in Mull, 257 



PENH ALLOW, D. P., B.Sc., notes on 

 Parka decipiens, 123 



Phyllopoda, fossil, from-Moffat (Curr. 

 Lit.), 262 



Pingidcula vulgaris, life -history of 

 (Curr. Lit.),' 128 



Plant superstitions (Curr. Lit.), 126 



Plants, Arctic, in the old lake deposits 

 of Scotland, 46 ; list of, found in 

 the Glenluce District (Curr. Lit.), 

 127 ; Scottish, for 1893, additional 

 to " Topographical Botany," 2nd 

 Ed., 158 ; in Mid-Perth, altitudes 

 reached by certain, 164 ; first 

 records of Scottish, 57, 122, iSS, 

 262 



Poa laxa on Lochnagar, 122 



Pochard on the river Carron, Stirling- 

 shire, 115 



Podicipes cristatus on the Aberdeenshire 

 Coast, 116 ; breeding in Mid-Fife, 

 181 ; nesting in Stirlingshire, 181 ; 

 nesting in Fifeshire, 181 



Polecat in Aberdeenshire, 113 



Potamogeton polygonifolins, var. pseudo- 

 fuitans, Syme (Curr. Lit.), 191 



Psainmosteus Taylori, a new fossil fish 



from Morayshire, 225 

 Pyrola rotundfolia and its European 



forms (Curr. Lit.), 62 



Quail in Elginshire, 55 

 Quails (Curr. Lit.), 60; nesting of, in 

 Shetland, 116 



RANK EN, T. W., Buffon's Skua in 



Orkney, 55 



Ranunculus flammula, forms of, 235 

 READ, ROBERT H., nesting of Tufted 



Duck in Renfrewshire, 257 

 Reptiles of Edinburgh District (Curr. 



Lit.), 260 



"Reptiles, on some new, from the Elgin 

 Sandstones," on Mr. E.T. Newton's 

 memoir, 88 

 Reviews 



The Birds of Derbyshire, by F. B. 



Whitlock, 63 

 British Fungus Flora (vols. ii. and iii. ), 



by George Massee, 63 

 A Dictionary of Birds, by Alfred 



Newton, 64 

 Geographical Distribution of British 



Birds, by Henry Seebohm, 190 

 Stirling Natural History and Archaeo- 

 logical Society's Transactions. 1892- 

 1893, 192 



Natural History of Arbroath and 

 District, by Thomas F. Dewar, 

 M.D., B.Sc., 192 



The Book of Antelopes, by P. L. 

 Sclater and Oldfield Thomas, 263 

 ROEBUCK, WM. DENISON, F. L. S., 

 additions to the authenticated 

 comital census of the Land and 

 Freshwater Mollusca of Scotland, 



153 



Roller in East Ross-shire, 54 

 ROY, JOHN, LL.D., obituary of, 72 ; 



on Scottish Desmidieas, 40 ; and 



J. P. Bisset, on Scottish Des- 



midiea;, IOO, 167, 241 

 Rubi notes (Curr. Lit.), 127 



SADLER, T. D., contribution towards 

 the Moss-Flora of Perthshire, 29 



Salix aitrita x herbacea in East Perth 

 (Curr. Lit.), 262 ; Grahami, origin 

 of, 239 ; Sadleri, what is the true 

 rank of (Curr. Lit.), 263 



Salfce in the Moray Firth, on the 

 occurrence of, 183 



Sandpiper, Green, in Argyleshire, 258 



Scinriis vulgaris in the Southern High- 

 lands (Curr. Lit.), 260 



Scorpccna dactyloptera in Scottish 

 waters, 181 



