No. XXX. 



APRIL 1878. 



THE 



SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



A QUARTERLY 



Edited by F. BUCHANAN WHITE, M.D., F.T.S. 



CONTENTS. 



Zoology— 



On Migration, — Colonel Drummond Hay, CM. Z.S., 



The Lepidoptera of Moncreiffe Hill,— Sir T. MoNCREiFFE, Bart.. 



Glen Tilt : its Fauna and Flora, — Editor, 



Additional Localities of Scottish Coleoptera,— A. Buchan Hi riiiRX, 

 Short-sighted Policy,— J. H. Gurxfa', Jun,, F.Z.S., . 

 Guillemots colliding,— J. A. Harvie Brown, F.Z.S., 



Various Notes, 



Phytology— 



Mycological Notes— Ptychogaster albus,— Rev. J. Stevenson, . 



On certain Lichens belonging to the genus Parmelia,— J. Stirtox, 



M.D., F.L.S., . . . 



Rosa micrantha in Scotland,— A. Brotherston, .... 

 Xylaria polymorpha, — Ibid., .....■•• 

 New Scottish Fungi,— Editor, 



Geology— 



The Gold-Field and Gold-Diggings of Crawford-Lindsay (Lanarkshire), 

 — Dr Lauder Lindsay, F.R.S.E., F.L.S., . . . . 

 Native Gold in Perthshire, — Ibid., 



Insecta Scotica— 



The Lepidoptera of Scotland, — Editor, 



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



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