igo 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 April-June 1903. 



[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 HILL Fox IN SCOTLAND. " H. M." The Field, 23rd May 



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PLAGUE OF FIELD MICE IN WIGTONSHIRE. " Inquirer." The 

 Field, 1 8th April 1903, p. 654. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM SHETLAND. T. Edmonston 

 Saxby. Zoologist, April 1903, p. 157. Eleven species of birds are 

 dealt with in these notes. 



THE BLACK-NECKED GREBE IN PERTHSHIRE. The Field, 25th 

 April 1903, p. 695. An editorial note, quoting a letter from Her 

 Grace the Duchess of Bedford, who reports having seen four birds 

 of this species on a loch in Perthshire on igth April. 



EARLY NESTING OF THE SHAG (PHALACROCORAX GRACULUS). 

 Harold Raeburn. Zoologist, April 1903, p. 153. The notes refer 

 to various localities in Scotland. 



A LIST OF THE LEPIDOPTERA OF ROXBURGHSHIRE. By W. 

 Renton. Entomologist, May 1903, pp. 130-135, and June 1903, 

 pp. 162-165. Three hundred and thirty- five species are here 

 recorded, of which twenty-seven are butterflies. 



MACRO-LEPIDOPTERA OF ABERDEEN AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. By 

 Wm. Cowie. Trans. Aberdeen Working Men's Nat. Hist, and Sclent. 

 Soc. No. I. (1903), pp. 20-35. Three hundred and seventy-five 

 species recorded, of which thirty are butterflies. 



TINEA IMELLA IN DUMBARTONSHIRE. J. R. Malloch. Ent. Mo. 

 Mag. June 1903, p. 150. A long note, giving particulars of habits, 

 life-history, etc. 



HYMENOPTERA AROUND ABERDEEN. By J. Mearns. Trans. 

 Aberdeen Working Men's Nat. Hist, and Sclent. Soc. No. I. (1903), 

 pp. 36-38. Fifty-eight species recorded. 



NOTES FROM THE GATTY MARINE LABORATORY, ST. ANDREWS, 

 No. XXIV. By Prof. M'Intosh, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S., etc. These 

 notes are on (i) the Frequency of the Occurrence of Pearls in the 

 Mussel; (2) the Effects of Marine Piscatorial Birds on the Food- 

 Fishes ; and (3) the British Eunicidae. Scottish localities are 

 mentioned. 



