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CURRENT LITERATURE. 



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

 History which have appeared during the Quarter July-September 1906. 



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 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 

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ZOOLOGY. 



GADWALL NESTING IN PEEBLESSHIRE. H. B. Marshall. The 

 Field, 28th July 1906, p. 196. A pair settled on a small lake and 

 rearing a brood of young at Broughton. An editorial note gives a 

 summary of the occurrences of the species in Scotland. 



ON THE HYBRIDS WHICH HAVE OCCURRED IN GREAT BRITAIN 

 BETWEEN BLACK-GAME AND PHEASANT. Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, 

 M.A., M.B.O.U. Zoologist, September 1906, pp. 321-330, pi. iv. 

 Fifty hybrids recorded, including seven from Scotland. 



PALLAS'S SAND GROUSE IN EAST LOTHIAN. C. E. S. Chambers. 

 The Field, 2nd June 1906, p. 901. A flock of six seen on some 

 'well-known links." 



JACK SNIPE IN ELGINSHIRE IN AUGUST. J. Brander Dunbar. 

 The Field, 25th August 1906, p. 342. One shot near Loch Spynie 

 on loth August, and another reported from Pitgaveny. A long 

 editorial note given in reference to the occurrences and nesting of 

 this species. 



LOCH BROOM SEA MONSTER. W. H. Workman, J. T. Henderson, 

 and T. Southwell. Zoologist, September 1906, pp. 355-357 and 

 fig. Refers to a creature observed outside Loch Broom by the 

 excise officers, and on 24th August by J. T. Henderson, and supposed 

 by him to be a Basking Shark (Selache maxima). Mr. Southwell 

 concurs in this opinion, but other authentic: regard it as a 

 Balcznoptera. 



MONOGRAPH OF THE LAND AND FRESH WATER MOLLUSCA OF 

 THE BRITISH ISLES. John W. Taylor. Part 12 (i5th June 1906), 

 pp. 225-280 and 1-16, pis. xv., xxii., xxiii., and xxv. Includes 

 Arion hortensis, circumscriptus, intermedius, Geomalaats maatlosus, an 

 Appendix of 1 9 pages ; also the commencement of the Family 

 Zonitidcz, including Vitrina pelludda. All known Scottish localities 

 are given. 



COLLECTIVE INQUIRY AS TO PROGRESSIVE MELANISM IN LEPI- 

 DOPTERA. Summary of evidence prepared by L. Doncaster, Ent. 

 Record, ist July, 2oth July, and i5th September 1906, pp. 165-168, 



