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CURRENT LITERATURE. 



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

 History which have appeared during the Quarter April-June 1907. 



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ZOOLOGY. 



THE MAMMALS OF THE EDINBURGH OR FORTH AREA. SUPPLE- 

 MENTARY NOTES. By William Evans, F.R.S.E., Proc. Roy. P/iys. 

 Soc. Edin. vol. xvi. No. 8 (May 1907), pp. 387-405. Brings the 

 total number of species now known to have occurred in the area up 

 to fifty. 



SCOTTISH AND NORWEGIAN RED DEER. R. L. 77/6' Field, 1 5th 

 June 1907, p. 1015. Refers to a paper by Dr. Leonard Stejneger, 

 in a recent issue of the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Contributions, 

 dealing with the racial differences between the Red Deer of western 

 Norway and those of Sweden. According to this author, the former 

 are inseparable from those of Scotland, and thus furnish evidence in 

 favour of a late land connection between the two countries in 

 question. 



RAVEN AND RING OUSEL NEAR GLASGOW. D. A. M., The 

 Field, 8th June 1907, p. 957. Specimen of the former seen flying 

 high (and croaking) within one mile of Glasgow, and the latter heard 

 in May singing within two miles of the city. 



EARLY NEST OF THE DIPPER. T. Thornton MacKeith, 

 Zoologist, April 1907, p. 151. Records the commencement of a 

 nest at Uplawmoor, Renfrewshire, on i5th February, the fourth egg 

 being laid on i6th March.- The same observer (Zoologist, June 

 1907, p. 235) took a clutch of five Dipper's eggs in the same 

 locality on i4th April, and on 3oth April found five freshly laid eggs 

 in the identical nest. 



LANDRAIL KILLED BY TELEGRAPH WIRE. A. Crawshay, The 

 Field, 27th April 1907, p. 689. The incident occurred at New 

 Cumnock on 22nd April, an early date for the arrival of this 

 species. 



MIGRATION OF WILD SWANS. H. W. Robinson, The Field, 

 27th April 1907, p. 689. Large flights observed passing over 

 Graemsay, Orkneys, on i5th April. 



ON MELANOTUS RUFIPES, HERBST., AND M. CASTANIPES, PAYK. 

 E. A. Newberry, Ent. Mo. Mag., June 1907, p. 123. A short 



