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PACK 



In Memoriam : Howard Saunders. With Portrait. Plate I. . 1 



Notes on Birds observed in the Scottish Islands during the 



Spring and Autumn of 1907 The Duchess of Bedford . 2 



Bird Notes from the Isle of May. 9th Septeniber-8th October 



1907 Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul and Evelyn V. Baxter . 11 



Some Bird Notes from the Outer Hebrides during a Month 

 spent there, May-June 1907 (continued), Plate II. 

 P. H. Bcihr, B.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. . . . . 22 

 Notes on Coleoptera from St. Kilda Prof. T. Hudson Beare, 



F.R.S.E., F.E.S. 30 



Notes on Coleoptera from St. Kilda, mainly collected from 



Birds' Nests Norman H. Joy, M.R.C.S., F.E.S. . . 33 



Proposed Dealer's Eaid on the Birds of St. Kilda and the 



Outer Hebrides ........ 35 



Juncus balticus, Willd. Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. . . . 36 



Plants of Sutherland and Caithness G. Claridge Druce, M.A., 



F.L.S. "... 39 



Additions and Corrections to the Topographical Botany of 

 Scotland (continued) Prof. James W. H. Trail, A.M., 



M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. 44 



Zoological Notes . . . . . . . . 49 



Rare Birds at Fair Isle Wm. Eagle Clarke, F.R.S.E., F.L.S.; 

 Rose-coloured Starling in Argyllshire " Oban Times"; Male 

 Reed-Bunting Incubating Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., 

 F.R.S. ; Marsh Titmouse in Aberdeenshire /. H. Gurney, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. ; Red-breasted Flycatcher at the Bell Rock Lighthouse 

 Win. Eagle Clarke, F.R.S.E., F.L.S.; Spoonbills in the West of 

 Scotland ; Flock of the Glossy Ibis in Orkney H. W. Robinson ; 

 Glossy Ibis at Speymouth George Muirhead, F.R.S.E. ; Note on a 

 Young Gannet J. T. Henderson ; Early Nesting of the Shag H. W. 

 Robinson ; Nesting of the Quail in Scotland Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell, Bart., F.R.S.; Woodcocks and Blackgame in Dumfries- 

 shire Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart. , F.fi. S. ; Note on the 

 Waterhen Hugh S. Gladstone, M.A., F.Z.S. ; Black - tailed 

 Godwit and Great Grey Shrike in Fife Evelyn V. Baxter and 

 Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul; Sabine's Gull in the Firth of Forth 

 William Evans, F.R.S.E. ; Angler Fish in the Tay A. M. Rodger ; 

 Lepidoptera from East Ross and other Localities in the North of 

 Scotland -Dorothy Jackson ; Amblyptilus punctidactylus Dorothy 

 Jackson ; Cheiridium museorum and Chernes rufeolus in the Tweed 

 Area Alastair Urquhart ; Sirex noctilio in Forth William Evans, 

 F.R.S.E. 

 Botanical Notes and News . . . . . . . 55 



Obituary Notices Edward A. L. Batters, B.A., LL.B. ; Patrick Neill 

 Fraser ; Rev. James Farquharson, D.D. ; Frank Townshend, F.L.S. ; 

 Cordiceps ophioglossoides in Pecblesshire A. B. Stcele ; Rosa 

 hibernica in Banffshire W. Barclay ; Casuals near Aberdeen- 

 Pro/. James W. H. Trail, A.M., M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S.; Fungi 

 from the Isle of May A. B. Steele. 

 Current Literature . . . . . . . . 59 



Book Notices ......... 62 



A Natural History of the British Alucitides. Vol. I. J. W. Tutt, 

 F.E.S. ; Gilbert White of Selborne W. H. Mullens, M.A., LL.M.; 

 The Home-Life of some Marsh Birds Photographed and Described 

 by Emma L. Turner, F.L.S., and P. H. Bahr, B.A., M.B.O.U. ; 

 Mammals of the World W. F. Kirby, F.L.S., F.E.S. ; The Sense 

 nt Touch in Mammals and Birds, with Special Reference to the 

 Papillary Ridges Walter Kidd, M.D., F.Z.S. 



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