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been greatly curtailed during the last few years. In 1904 I 

 witnessed the total destruction of many acres of it in this way. To 

 one interested in the preservation of our native Flora, it was a sad 

 sight ; and I carried away armfuls of the trampled and uprooted 

 orchid, and planted them in the adjoining woods. A few plants 

 were also brought home and put out (April 1904) in the big pine 

 wood at Bavelaw, near Balerno, in Midlothian, but I have failed to 

 see anything of them in subsequent years. According to a note 

 in the " Transactions of the Edinburgh Field Naturalists' Society " 

 (iii. 298), Goodyera repens was discovered near Balerno by 

 Dr. W. Watson, on 2gth July 1896 ; but the statement was 

 evidently the result of some misunderstanding, for Dr. Watson 

 informs me he never saw the plant about Balerno or anywhere else 

 in the county. With reference to the record of Goodyera repens 

 from near Stromness, Orkney, in their magazine for July last 

 (p. 170), my wife reminds me that in July 1874 she sent me a 

 specimen from Harray in the same district. Referring to the 

 queries under Listera cordata in Prof. Trail's paper, I may say that 

 I have gathered this species in two localities adjoining the Pentlands, 

 in Midlothian ; and also at Macbiehill, in Peeblesshire, together 

 with the commoner L. ovata. WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



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

 History which have appeared during the Quarter January-March 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. 



THE BIRDS OF LENDALFOOT. Charles Berry, The Glasgow 

 Naturalist, vol. i. pts. i. and ii. (Nov. 1908 and Feb. 1909), 

 pp. 5-23. A list of 162 species, all, with two exceptions, seen 

 within a radius of four miles from Lendalfoot. 



INCREASE OF WOOD-PIGEONS IN ORKNEY. James R. Hale, 

 British Birds, March 1909, p. 345. Noticed during 1907 and 

 1908 breeding in increasing numbers in the Island of Shapinshay. 



NOTES ON THE EAGLES OF AYRSHIRE. John Paterson, The 

 Glasgow Naturalist, vol. i. pts. i. and 2 (Nov. 1908 and Feb. 1909), 

 pp. 28-32. Mainly historical. 



ICELAND FALCON IN SCOTLAND. Fred. Smalley, British Birds, 

 February 1909, p. 310. An adult example killed in December last 

 on the Flannan Isles. 



