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Is Legislative Protection required for Wild Birds' Eggs ? Rev. E. 



P. Knubley, M.A., M.B.O.U. 213 



The Feather-Billed Rook : Is it a recently developed Variation or 



hitherto overlooked Robert Service . . . . .218 



The Short-eared Owl (Asia accipitrinus, Pallas) and the Kestrel 

 (Falco tinnunculus, Linnaeus) in the Vole Plague Districts 

 Peter Adair . . . . . . . .219 



New Scottish Fossil Reptiles ....... 232 



A New Fossil Fish from Dura Den R. H, Traquair, M.D., F.R.S. 233 

 Additions to the Authenticated Comital Census of the Land and 

 Freshwater Mollusca of Scotland Wm. Denison Roebuck, 



f.L.S. 235 



Entomologising in Ayrshire George W. Ord . . . . 238 

 On certain New or Rare Rotifers from Forfarshire W. T. Caiman 240 

 Pistillody of the Stamens in the " Champion " Potato James W. H. 



Trail, M.A., M.D., F.L.S 245 



Contributions towards a Flora of Caithness. No. II. Arthur 



Bennett, F.L.S. ......... 247 



Notes on "English Botany, Supplement" G. Claridge Druce, 



,. M.A., F.L.S. 253 



List of the Hieracia of Perthshire F. Buchanan White, M.D., 



F.L.S., F.E.S. 260 



New Scottish Galls James W. H. Trail, M.A., M.D., F.L.S. 264 



Zoological Notes .......... 266 



Daubenton's Bat in Banffshire W. Eagle Clarke ; Water Shrew in Argyll- 

 shire C. Campbell; Habits of the Mountain Hare W. Evans, 

 F.R.S. E. ; Black Rat in Orkney T. E. Buckley, B.A., F.Z.S. ; The 

 Occurrence of the Hooded Seal in Orkney -T. S. Peace ; Whin Chat 

 in Barra Dr. J. MacRury ; The Wood Wren in West Ross L. W. 

 Hinxman, B.A., and W. Eagle Clarke; Great Gray Shrike in the 

 Stewartry of Kirkcudbright A. Skirving ; Kingfisher in Barra Dr. J. 

 MacRury ; Nesting of the Stock Dove in Banffshire L. W. Hinxman, 

 B.A. ; Turtle Dove near Wick L. Dunbar ; Turtle Dove in Suther- 

 land T. E. Buckley, B.A., F.Z.S. ; Occurrence of the Ruff in 

 Tiree Eds. ; Ruddy Sheld Ducks in the Moray Firth /. Brown ; 

 Wild Swans in Tiree /. A. Harvie- Brown ; The Introduction of Dace 

 into Linlithgow Loch, and of Grayling into Cobbinshaw Loch 

 W. Evans, F.R.S.E. ; Supposed Cannibalism in the Slow-worm 

 /. MacNaughl Campbell, F. Z. S. ; Strangalia armata in Kirkcudbright- 

 shire W. D. R. Douglas, M.A., F.L.S., F.E.S. ; Larentia flavi- 

 cinctata as a Garden Insect F. BucJianan White, M.D., F.L.S., 

 F.E.S. ; Argissa (Syrrhoe) hamatipes in the Firth of Forth T. Scott, 

 F.L.S. ; Modiodicola insignis in the Firth of Forth T. Scott, F.L.S. ; 

 Ilyocryptus sordidus in Lochend Loch, Edinburgh T. Scott, F.L.S. 

 Botanical Notes and News . . . . . . .273 



Rediscovery of Sagina alpina in Scotland /. C. Druce ; Strobilomyces 

 strobilaceus in Perthshire M. Buchanan White ; First Records of 

 Scottish Flowering Plants William A. Clarke; Hieracia new to 

 Scotland F. J. Hanbury ; " Grevillea" ; British Fungus Flora George 

 Massee. 



Current Literature . . . . . . . . .276 



Reviews ........... 280 



A Vertebrate Fauna of Argyll and the Inner Hebrides /. A. Harvie-Brown 

 and T. E. Buckley; British Birds: Key List Lieut. -Colonel L. 

 Howard Irby. 



The Museum of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science . . 282 

 Index ... ... . . 283 



Printed by R. & R. CLARK, Edinburgh. 



