124 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Page 50, line 9, for " kyrtosstyla " read " kyrtostyla " ; and line 1 1, 

 for " L. monogyna" read " C. monogyna" ; line 17, transpose 

 " baltica" and " uliginosa." 



Page 51, line i, for " Aerrafa/cits " read " Serrafalcus." 



Correction. Kindly correct a mistake in my " Contributions 

 toward a Flora of Caithness," in which, under Deyeuxia neglecta, on 

 page 42, line 29, I have written " Shoolbred " instead of "Rev. H. 

 J. Riddelsdell." AR. BENNETT. 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



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

 History which have appeared during the Quarter January-March 1905. 



[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. 



WILD CATS IN ROSS-SHIRE. A. J. M'Connochie. The Field, 

 1 4th January 1905, p. 73. Records the capture of a specimen in 

 Strath Cuileinach, weighing 14 Ibs. and measuring 49 inches in 

 extreme length. 



THE LITTLE SHREW IN ABERDEENSHIRE. George Sim. 

 Zoologist. January 1905, p. 31. -Example found by Miss I). 

 Hamilton at Skene House in October 1904. 



THE AFFINITIES OF THE ORKNEY VOLE (MICROTUS ORCADENSIS, 

 MILLAIS). C. J. Forsyth Major. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. 

 March 1905, pp. 323-324. Refers this interesting new British 

 mammal to the same sub-genus of Microtus as the Common Field- 

 Vole (M. agrestis}. 



THE PACIFIC EIDER IN ORKNEY. Hy. S. The Field, 4th February 

 1905, p. 190. Records a specimen shot at Graemsay, on i4th 

 December, by George Sutherland, and sent to a Scarborough dealer. 

 The bird had been identified by Dr. R. Bowdler Sharpe and 

 exhibited at the British Ornithologists' Club. 



Another note on this occurrence is given by H. W. Robinson, 

 The Field, iSth February 1905, p. 277. 



INSECTS ON THE FIFE COAST. J. W. H. Harrison, B.Sc. 

 Ent. Record, January 1905, pp. 23-25. An interesting note, 

 referring to a large number of species of Lepidoptera taken during 

 the month of August 1904. 



