No. XXXV. 



JULY 1879. 



THE 



SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



A QUARTERLY 



^aga^iite 0f l^ataral Jistor 



Edited by F. BUCHANAN WHITE, M.D., F.I^ 



CONTENTS. 

 Zoology— 



The Mountain Lepidoptera of Britain : Their Distribution and its 

 Causes, — Editor, ......... 



Notes on the Birds of the Basin of the Tay and its Tributaries {continjied), 

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



Lepidoptera in the Spring of 1879. — Sir T. Moncreiffe, Bart., . 



Jottings from my Note-Book : Lepidoptera, — R. Renton, . 



Notes on 'The Lepidoptera of Moncreiffe Hill,' — C. G. Barrett, 



Id., — Sir T. Moncreiffe, Bart., 



Food-plant of Gelechia acuminatella, — Editor, .... 



Phytology— 

 The Gaelic Names of Plants, — J. Cameron, 

 Recent Advances in British Bryology, — Rev. J. Fergusson, 

 Notes on the Botany of Loch Lindores, Fifeshire, — Editor, 

 Trametes pini in Morayshire, — Rev. J. Keith, A.M., . 

 Notes of the Spring of 1879, — Editor, . . . . 



Various Notes, 



Insecta Seotica— 



The Coleoptera of Scotland (^c>;/^/;«/^^), — D. Sharp, M.B,, 



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