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by young plants, but they rarely succeed. Still less successful are 

 Dielytra spectabilis, Atropa Belladonna, and Ly thrum virgatum, 

 portions of which from the gardens when thrown on the top-dress- 

 ing heap are carried out to the fields, but soon die off. I have also 

 seen one or two small plants of Morina longifolia on the fields, but 

 whether from seed or outcast I have not been able to satisfy myself. 



W. WILSON. 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



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

 History which have appeared during the Quarter October-December 1906. 



[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. 



HOOPOE IN ORKNEY. H. W. Robinson. The Field, 24th 

 November 1906, p. 908. Example picked up dead near the Loch 

 of Harray, near Stromness, on i6th November. 



SPOTTED CRAKE IN LEWIS. Arthur W. Rowlands. The Field, 

 loth November 1906, p. 822. Specimen shot at Stornoway on 

 1 5th October. 



LOCH BROOM SEA MONSTER. Zoologist, October 1 906, pp. 

 396-398. Notes by Messrs. J. Murie and J. A. Harvie-Brown. 

 expressing the opinion that the monster in question was a Basking 

 Shark (Selache maxima). 



A MOLLUSCAN VISIT TO SOME OF THE INNER HEBRIDES 

 (ISLAY, COLL, TIREE, AND IONA). By Rev. G. A. Frank Knight, 

 M.A., F.R.S.E. Trans. Perthshire Soc. Nat. Sci., vol. iv., pt. iii., 

 1906, pp. 135-161. 



EMPIS HYALIPENNIS, FLN., IN DUMBARTONSHIRE. J. R. Malloch. 



Ent. Mo. Mag., November 1906, p. 257. Four specimens taken 

 on 25th August in Murroch Glen, near Bonhill. 



ON A FEW TACHINID.E AND THEIR HOSTS. By Claude Morley, 

 F.E.S. Entomologist, December 1906, pp. 270-274. - -Tachina 

 larvarum, L., reared from Galashiels specimens of Macrothylacia 

 rubi by Mr. Haggart. 



POLIETES HIRTICRURA, MEADS. By James Waterston, Ent. 

 Mo. Mag., December 1906, pp. 269-270. The female (hitherto 

 unknown) described from a specimen taken in Glen Ashdale, near 

 Whiting Bay, Arran. 



