198 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



CURRENT LITERATURE. 



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

 History which have appeared during the Quarter April-June 1904. 



[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 initials of the Contributor. The Editors will have access to the 

 sources of information undermentioned.] 



ZOOLOGY. 



A CURIOUSLY COLOURED HARE. J. Cuthbert Spencer. The 

 Field, iith June 1904, p. 1000. Note, probably referring to a 

 Scotch hare changing its winter coat. The specimen alluded to 

 is from St. Boswells. 



SUMMER BIRDS IN SCOTLAND. The Field, 23rd April 1904, 

 p. 694. Note on the arrival of summer birds north of the Tweed, 

 furnished by the Duchess of Bedford. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM ABERDEEN February and March. 

 William Wilson. Zoologist, April 1904, p. 146. Eleven species 

 mentioned. 



ABERDEEN : MIGRATION NOTES FOR APRIL. W. Wilson. 

 Zoologist, June 1904, p. 231. Notes on Wheatears, Ring Ouzels, 

 and Dunlins. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES FROM SHETLAND. By T. Edmondston 

 Saxby, Halligarth, Unst. Zoologist (i5th June 1904). Amongst 

 other less important records, such as Snowy Owl, Short-eared Owl, 

 Smew, Rose-coloured Pastor, Waxwing, three records are prominent 

 Chiffchaffs A good number, from April 15 to 26, 1904; Haw- 

 finch One 9 brought to Mr. E. alive, May 3, 1904; and Little 

 Gull Myrasound, May 3, 1904. 



ON NYSSIA LAPPONARIA. By E. A. Cockayne. Entomologist, 

 June 1904, pp. 149-150, pi. vi. An interesting account of the life- 

 history and habits of this Scottish species. 



DlPTERA FROM THE SHETLANDS AND ORKNEYS. E. A. Bloom- 



field. Ent. Mo. Mag. April 1904, p. 88. Records 6 species 

 of Syrphidae collected by the Rev. F. D. Morice in the autumn 

 of 1894. 



FURTHER NOTES ON HYDROPTILID^ BELONGING TO THE 

 EUROPEAN FAUNA, WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. By 

 Kenneth J. Morton, F.E.S. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1904, Part II. 

 (June), pp. 323-328, pi. xxi. Oxyethira mirabilis described as new, 

 from Loch Eigheach, Rannoch, and Allotrichia pallicornis, 

 Hydroptila sylvestris, Orthotrichia tetensii, Oxyethira frici, O. 

 tristella, and O. simplex, mentioned as Scottish species. 



