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EDITORIAL .... . i 



The Great Spotted Woodpecker (Picus major, L.) in Scotland 



/. A. Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S 4 



On the Occurrence of Wilson's Petrel (Oceanites oceanica, Kuhl) in 



Jura Henry Evans, F.Z.S. . . . . . . 1 8 



Freshwater Fishes of the Solway Area Robert Service . . 1 8 



On Anarrhichas minor, Olafsen, and its Occurrence on the Aber- 



deenshire Coast Morris Young, 'F.E.S., and William 1 vgle 



Clarke, F.L.S. Plate I . . 26 



Note on an Abnormally Developed Thornback (Raia clavata, L.) 



R. H. Traquair, M.D., F.R.S. ... . . . 29 



List of the Type and Figured Specimens in the " Powrie Collection " 



of Fossils R. H. .Traquair, M.D., F.R.S 31 



A List of the Macro-Lepidoptera of Balerno, Midlothian E. W. 



Carlier, M.D., B.Sc. 39 



Notes on Some Scottish Echinodermata Thomas Scott, F.L.S. 



Plate II .49 



On the Flora of Shetland William H. Beeby, F.L.S. . . 51 



Contributions towards a Flora of the Outer Hebrides Arthur 



Bennett, F.L.S. 56 



Notes on Scottish Willows F. Buchanan White, M. D. , F. L. S. ,F.E.S. 64 

 List of Fungi found at Stirling Charles B. Ploivright, M.D., H. G. 



Ward, and Rev. J. Robertson . . . . . . 68 



Zoological Notes ......... 69 



Lesser Shrew in Fife W. Berry, B.A., LL.B. ; Polecat in Dumfriesshire 

 R. Service ; The Blue-throated Warbler in Orkney T. E. Bicckley, 

 B.A., F.Z.S. ; Jay in the Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh W. Serle, \ 

 M.A.; Wrynecks on the East Coast of Scotland W. Evans, F.R.S.E. ; 

 Snowy Owl in Argyllshire His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K. T., F.R. S. ; 

 Spotted Crake in Shetland /. A. Harvie - Brown ; The reported 

 occurrence of Grus leucogeranus in the Outer Hebrides W. Eagle 

 Clarke ; The Gray Phalarope in Islay R. Scott Skh ving ; Gray 

 Phalarope in Jura H. Evans, F.Z.S. ; Gray Phalarope in S.W. Scot- 

 land R. Service ; The Nesting of the Woodcock in North Uist Sir 

 J. W. P. Campbell-Orde, Bart. ; Ruff in Orkney T. S. Peace ; Buffon's 

 Skua in the Solway District R. Service ; Buffon's Skua in the Scottish 

 Solway Area Rev. H. A. Macpherson, M.A. ; Great Shearwater in 

 Tiree /. A. Harvie-Brown ; Unusual Numbers of the Fork-tailed 

 Petrel on the Scottish Coasts W. Evans, F.R.S.E. ; Occurrence of 

 Triglops murrayi on the East Coast of Scotland G. Sim, A.L.S. ; 

 Note on Zeugopterus unimaculatus and its Habitat W. Anderson 

 Smith ; The Three- Bearded Rockling in the Solway Firth R. Service ; 

 Note on Rossia macrosoma W. Anderson Smith ; Saperda carcharias 

 in Elginshire W. Evans, F. R. S. E. ; Monochammus sutor in Mid- 

 lothian W. Evans, F.R.S.E. ; Sphinx convolvuli at Dumfries R. 

 Service ; Sirex gigas in the neighbourhood of Dunbar G. Pow. 



Botanical Notes ..... . .80 



Cauliflower Disease of Strawberry at Aberdeen /. W. H. Trail ; Scarcity 

 of Oak-galls in 1891 /. W. H. Trail; Euphrasia officinalis F. Towns- 

 end, M.P., F.L.S.; The Biographical Index of British and Irish 

 Botanists James Britten, F.L.S., and G. S. Boulger, F.L.S.; The 

 " Key to the Genera and Species of British Mosses ' ' Rev. H. G. Jameson. 



Current Literature .... . 81 



Reviews ..... ... 84 



Melanism and Melanochroism in British Lepidoptera /. W. Tutt, F.E.S. ; 

 British Edible Fungi, how to distinguish and how to cook them M. C. 

 Cooke, M.A., LL.D. 



Printed by R. & R. CLARK, Edinburgh. 



