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On New and Rare Crustacea from the East Coast of Scotland 



Thomas Scott, F.L.S., and Andrew Scott. Plates VI. and VII. 1 49 



Contributions to the Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland and Caithness 



-T. E. Buckley, B.A., F.Z.S., etc ..... 156 



On the Former Abundance of the Quail (Colurnix communis, 



Bonnaterre) in Wigtownshire Peter Adair . . . .168 



On the Supposed Breeding of the Sclavonian Grebe (Podicipes 



auritus, L.) in Ross-shire A. H. Evans, M.A., F.Z.S. . 171 



Lochinver as a Locality for Lepidoptera Wilfrid W. Q 

 Beveridge, M.B. (Edinburgh) ; with Note by F. Buchanan 

 VWiite, M.D., F.L.S., F.E.S. .... 172 



Plants of Glen Spean, Westerness (Continued} G. Claridge Druce, 



., F.L.S. . . . . . . . . 178 



On some Scottish Plants observed July 1891 Rev. E. S. 



Marshall, M.A., F.L.S. . . ..... 185 



The Desmidieae of East Fife John Roy, LL.D ..... 193 



Zoological Notes . . . . . . . . .197 



Rockall and its Avifauna ; Notes on Birds in Barra Dr. J. MacRury ; 

 Unusual Nesting Place for the Dipper Lieut. -Col. H. M. Drummond 

 Hay ; Whitethroat in Barra Dr. J. MacRury ; White Wagtail in Barra 



Dr. J. MacRury ; Swift in Barra Dr. J. MacRury ; Great Spotted 

 Woodpecker in Stirlingshire Fred. Laird ; Whimbrel wintering in Barra 



Dr. J. MacRury ; Buzzard in Forfarshire Dr. Thomas F. Dewar ; 

 Note on the Sheldrake Robert Service ; Nesting of the Water Rail in 

 Perthshire Lieut.-Col. W. H. M. Duthie ; The Food of the Great Skua 



Jessie M. E. Saxby ; Eledone cirrosa in the Solway Firth Robert 

 Service ; Diaptomus castor in the Braid Ponds near Edinburgh 

 Thomas Scott, F.L.S. 



Botanical Notes and News . . . . . . . 203 



Fasciation in Austrian Pine W. Forgan ; Linaria minor Arthur Bennett, 

 F.L.S. ; Linaria minor on Railway Banks P. W. Maclagan ; Plants 

 new to Scotland recorded in Botanical Journals in 1892 ; " Notes on 

 the Flora of Stirlingshire "Col. Stirling and Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E. 



Current Literature . . . . . . . . .206 



Reviews . . , . . . . . . . . . 209 



Supplement to Sowerby's English Botany N. E. Brown, A.L.S., and 

 Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. ; Outlines of Zoology /. Arthur Thomson, 

 M.A. ; The Lepidoptera of the British Islands Charles G. Barrett, 

 F.E.S. ; The Mammalian Fauna of the Edinburgh District William 

 Evans, F.R.S.E. 



Recent Additions to the Natural History Department of the 

 Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh R. H. Traquair, 

 M.D., F.R.S. ......... 212 



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