No. XXIV. OCTOBER, 1876. Vol. III. 



11 TitnJs glory is 

 To unmask falsehood and bring truth to light." 



THE 



SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Edited by P. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S. 



CONTENTS. 



Zoology— Page 

 Illustrations of Animal Reason (continued), — Dr. Lauder Lindsay, 



F.R.S.E., F.L.S., 329 



Note on the Woodcock, — W. D. Robinson-Douglas, B. A., F.C. S., &c, 337 

 Outline Descriptions of British Coleoptera (continued), — Rev. Thos. 



Blackburn, B.A., 338 



Velvet Scoters in Scotland in Summer,— J. A. Harvie Brown, - 348 



The Tunny (Scomber thinnu s Linn.) — George Sim, - - - 348 



Phytology— 



Notes of a Botanical Excursion to Loch Clunie, Perthshire, — Dr. 



Buchanan White, 349 



Rumex conspersus (Hartm.) on Tweedside,— Andrew Brotherston, 354 



Carex aquatilis var. Watsoni Syme, — Id., 354 



Notes, 353 



Geology— 



The Earn Valley : an "Ancient " and " Modern" Level of the River 



Earn,— F. Smith, F.G.S.E., 355 



Notices of New Books- 

 Rambles of a Naturalist in Egypt and other Countries, by G. J. H. 



Gurney, Jun., F.Z.S., 359 



Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Glasgow, Vol. II. Part 2, 359 



Insecta Scotica— 

 The Lepidoptera of Scotland,— F. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S., 360 

 The Coleoptera of Scotland,— D. Sharp, M.B., .... 368 



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