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Report on Scottish Ornithology for 1908 John Paterson . 193 



The Recent Remarkable Visitation of Crossbills Wm. Eagle 



Clarke, F.L.S., F.R.S.E 215 



The Aquatic Coleoptera of the Solway District (continued} 



Frank Bdfour-Browne, M.A. (Oxon.), F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. . 218 



On Some Scottish Siphonaptera. II. James Water ston, B.Sc., 



B.D 226 



The High Alpine Flora of Britain : being a List of the Flower- 

 ing Plants and Ferns found at a Thousand Metres and 

 upwards on the Mountains of the British Isles, with 

 authentic References and Critical Notes (continued} 

 Frederic N. Williams, F.L.S. 229 



Euplirasia and Rliinantlius William H. Beeby, F.L.S. . . 234 



Car ex lielvola, Blytt, on Ben Lawers G. Claridge Druce, M.A., 



F.L.S. ......... 238 



New and Rare Mosses from the West of Scotland (continued) 



James Stirton, M.D., F.L.S. . . . . .241 



Zoological Notes . . . . . . . .246 



Great Cormorant R. C. Haldane, F.S.A. (Scot.) ; White - throated 

 Sparrow at the Flannan Islands Fred. Smalley ; The Corn- 

 Bunting and Chiff-Chaff in Mull D. Macdonald ; Heronries in 

 Mull D. Macdonald ; Ruddy Sheld-Duck at Sule Skerry, Orkney 

 Wm. Eagle Clarice, F.L.S., F.R.S.E. ; Pintail in Solway: an 

 explanation Jas. Bartholomew ; Occurrence of Black-tailed Godwit 

 , in the Cromarty Firth Annie G. Jackson; Black-tailed Godwit in 

 Fife William Berry, B.A., LL.B. ; An Adult Sabine's Gull at 

 Lerwick, Shetland John S. Tulloch ; Capture of the Sagre off the 

 Shetlands Wm. Eagle Clarke, F.L.S., F.R.S.E.; Spinous Shark 

 captured off the Isle of May Wm. Eagle Clarke, F.L.S., F.R.S.E. ; 

 Cryptocephalus aureolus in Strathspey : a Beetle new to the 

 Scottish Fauna Ethel Clare Maitland-Dougall ; Lepidoptera of 

 the N.E. Highlands : a Correction Dorothy J. Jackson ; Hydrach- 

 nids (Water-mites) from the Forth Area William Evans, F.R.S.E. ; 

 Argyroneta aquatica in Perthshire Alex. M. Rodger; Two New 

 British Diptera Percy H. Grimshaw, F.E.S. 



Botanical Notes and News . . . . . . .250 



Additional Vice-county Records from West of Scotland Prof. James 

 W. H. Trail, A.M., M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S.; Synchitrium aureum 

 near Aberdeen Prof. James W. H. Trail, A.M., M.D., F.R.S., 

 F.L.S.; Study of British Roses; British Species of Taraxacum; 

 Forms of Senecio vulgaris. 



Current Literature . . . . . . ..253 



Book Notices 255 



The British Warblers : a History, with Problems of their Lives. 

 Parts II. and III. Eliot Howard, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. ; A Tourist's 

 Flora of the West of Ireland Robert Lloyd Pracger. 



INDEX . - 257 



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