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ANCIENT RED DEER OF SCOTLAND. Robert H. Elliot. The 

 Field, 4th July 1896, p. 42. Head found in the bed of Linton 

 Loch, Roxburghshire, at a depth of 14 feet, shortly after it was 

 drained. The head has the full complement of teeth, and there 

 are nineteen points, namely, ten on one horn and nine on the other. 



BIRDS OF THE BASS ROCK. H. N. Bonar. The Field, 2yth 

 June 1896, p. 1026. A nest of young blackbirds found on the 

 Bass Rock, and the Oyster-catcher and the Starling found breeding 

 on Inchmickery. 



HEDGE-SPARROW BREEDING ON THE BASS ROCK. A. H. 

 Meiklejohn. Zoologist (3), vol. xx. p. 304 (August 1896). A nest 

 containing four eggs found on i6th May. 



HYBRID GROUSE AND BLACKCOCK. Robert Raine. The Field, 

 5th September 1896, p. 422. Two males shot on a moor in Kirk- 

 cudbrightshire. 



THE OPAH, OR KING-FISH, OFF ABERDEEN. Zoologist (3), vol. 

 xx. p. 306 (August 1896). Specimen caught about 4 ft. long and 

 2 \ ft. at the broadest part, weighing 70 Ibs. 



CAPTURE OF THE OPAH. "G. M." The Field, i3th June 1896, 

 p. 941. Specimen caught 240 miles north-east of Kinnaird's Head. 



LEPIDOPTERA OF ARGYLESHIRE. W. M. Christy. Entomologist, 

 vol. xxix. pp. 262-263 (August 1896). A list of eighty species taken 

 about Loch Riddon during the last few years. 



VARIATION OF OPORABIA DILUTATA. J. J. F. X. King. Ent. 

 Record, vol. viii. p. in (ist July 1896). Specimens described 

 from Glasgow, Paisley, Lead Hills, and Wanlockhead. 



OCCURRENCE OF COLEOPHORA GLITZELLA, HFMN., IN BRITAIN. 

 By Eustace R. Bankes, M.A., F.E.S. Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. vii. 

 pp. 145-148 (July 1896). Specimens bred by Mr. W. H. B. 

 Fletcher from larvae obtained at Rannoch by Mr. W. Salvage in the 

 spring of 1884, and again in 1891 and 1893. 



NOTES ON TRICHOPTERA (INCLUDING AGRYPNIA PICTA, KOL.) 

 TAKEN IN UNST (SHETLAND), 1895. By James J. F. X. King, 

 F.E.S., Ent. Mo. Mag. (2), vol. vii. pp. 151-152 (July 1896). A list 

 of twenty-seven species taken during the year. 



ON SOME NEW AND RARE BRITISH CRUSTACEA. By Thomas 

 Scott, F.L.S. Ann. and Mag. Nat. Hist. (6), vol. 18, pp. i-S, and 

 pis. i. and ii. (July 1896). Description of Clausia Cluthse, sp. n., from 

 Ayr Bay, Firth of Clyde ; Marsenobiotus Vejdovskyi, Mrazek, from 

 Loch Vennachar, Perthshire ; Attheyella Duthiei, sp. n., from Brough 

 Loch, Island of Yell, Shetland; and Canthocamptus parvus, sp. n., from 

 Aberlady Bay, Firth of Forth. 



