CURRENT LITERATURE 261 



A LIST OF BIRDS OBSERVED IN SHETLAND, MAY AND JUNE 

 1897. By Bernard A. E. Buttress. Zoologist (4), vol. i. pp. 360- 

 362 (August 1897). A list of sixty-three species is given; of these 

 the eggs were found of twenty-seven. 



NOTES ON A " LIST OF THE BIRDS WHICH HAVE BEEN OB- 

 SERVED IN THE DISTRICT OF ARDNAMURCHAN, ARGYLESHIRE," 

 WITH ADDITIONS THERETO. By John J. Dalgleish, F.S.A. Scot., 

 M.B.O.U. Trans. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow (N.S.), iv. pt. iii. pp. 

 347-350 (March 1887). Adds sixteen species to the list, making 

 the total number of birds of the peninsula one hundred and thirty- 

 one. 



APPEARANCE OF MIGRANTS IN ABERDEENSHIRE DURING 1896 

 AND 1897. William Wilson. Zoologist (4), vol. i. p. 366 (August 

 1897). 



BEE-EATER IN CAITHNESS. J. H. T. The Field, 28th August 

 1897, p. 389. A pair seen and the male shot at Langwell on i2th 

 May. 



BLACK- THROATED DIVER BREEDING IN SHETLAND. Bernard 

 A. E. Buttress. Zoologist (4), vol. i. p. 364 (August 1897). 



SUMMER APPEARANCE OF WILD GEESE IN FIFESHIRE. A. 

 H. Meiklejohn. Zoologist (4), vol. i. p. 363 (August 1897). On 

 ist July a flock of about twenty flew over the links at St. Andrews 

 in an easterly direction. 



NOTES ON THE ANIMAL PLANKTON FROM H.M.S. "RESEARCH." 

 By Thomas Scott, F.L.S. 15/7* Ann. Rep. Fishery Board Scot., pt. 

 iii. pp. 305-315 (1897). Records the results of the examination of 

 twenty-four tow-net gatherings collected in July and August 1896 

 in the Shetland-Faroe Channel. Notes are given on some of the 

 species. 



LUMP SUCKERS IN SALMON NETS. Gerald Ansdell. The Field, 

 2ist August 1897, p. 318. A number of specimens of Cyclopterus 

 lumpus caught at Kilmelford, Argyle. 



THE MARINE FISHES AND INVERTEBRATES OF LOCH FYNE. By 

 Thomas Scott, F.L.S. i5/7z Ann. Rep. Fishery Board Scot., pt. iii. 

 pp. 107-174, pis. i.-iii. (1897). In this catalogue the total number 

 of species enrolled is 837, which includes several not before re- 

 corded for the Clyde, one Copepod new to Britain, and one new to 

 science. 



NOTES FROM THE GATTY MARINE LABORATORY, ST. ANDREWS 

 No. XVIII. By Prof. M'Intosh, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. Ann. and 

 Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), vol. xx. pp. 167-178. Include a description 

 of a new species of Evarne from Rockall (p. 168). 



