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CURRENT LITERATURE. 



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

 tory which have appeared during the Quarter April-June 1897. 



[The Editors desire assistance to enable them to make this Section as complete as 

 possible. Contributions on the lines indicated will be most acceptable and 

 will bear the initals of the Contributor. The Editors will have access to the 

 sources of information undermentioned.] 



ZOOLOGY. 



BIRD-LIFE AROUND WALLS, SHETLAND. By Robert Godfrey, 

 The Field, ist May 1897, p. 677. 



YELLOW WAGTAIL IN ARGYLLSHIRE. Robert Robinson 

 Davison. Zoologist (4), vol. i. p. 167 (April 1897). Records the 

 occurrence last spring (March and April 1896) of a solitary specimen 

 about a mile from Oban. 



CAPTURES IN ORKNEY IN 1896. E. M. Cheesman. Ent. Record, 

 vol. ix. p. 93 (i 5th April 1897). A list of 55 species of Lepidoptera 

 captured during the year. 



TEPHROSIA BISTORTATA (CREPUSCULARIA) IN MORAYSHIRE. A. 

 Home. Ent. Record, vol. ix. p. 93 (i5th April 1897). A single 

 specimen found, on i6th April 1892, resting on the trunk of a fir 

 tree in the Altyre Wood, near Forres. 



VELIA CURRENS,FAE.,IN SCOTLAND. R. M. Leake. Entomologist, 

 vol. xxx. p. 176 (June 1897). Three examples of the macropterous 

 form taken at Musselburgh from the river Esk during the month of 

 August 1893. 



BOTANY. 



NOTES ON BRITISH PLANTS II. CAREX. By Arthur Bennett, F. L.S. 

 Journ. Bot., June 1897, pp. 244-252. The following are Scottish 

 records: Carex rupestris, All., "more plentiful in W. Sutherland 

 than the first record would seem to intimate " ; C. leporina, L., var. 

 capitata, Sond., " Mr. Miller gathered this in W. Sutherland in 

 1 88 1 " ; C. spiralis, Ewing, from near the ridge between Forfar and 

 Aberdeenshire (this is one of the rigidce. ?} ; C. aquatilis, Wahl. 

 Dr. Buchanan White sent a form from Whitemyre of Methven, 

 referred by Dr. Almquist to C. aquatilis, var. epigejos, Laest., but 



