No. XXXVIII. APRIL 1880. 



THE 



SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



A QUARTERLY 





Edited by F. BUCHANAN WHITE, M.D.. F.L.S. ^^<\] 



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CONTENTS. 



Pasre 



Zoology- 

 Notes on the Birds of the Basin of the Tay and its Tributaries [con- 



timied), — Colonel Drummond Hay, CM. Z.S., . . . 241 



Notes on Birds that have occurred near Stanley, in Perthshire, — 



Thomas Marshall, 255 



Water-Spider near Aberdeen, — Professor J. W. PI. Trail, M.A., 



M.U., F.L.S., 261 



Phytology— 



The GaeHc Names of Plants [contimicd), — ^JOHN Cameron, . . . 262 

 Preliminary List of the Fungi of Perthshire {continued)^ — Editor, . 270 



Geology— 



On the Value of the Names of Places in indicating the Ancient Surface- 

 features of the Country, — Rev. A. MiLROY, D.D., . . . 279 



Inseeta Scotica— 



The Coleoptera of Scotland (cc?//^m?^(?^, — D. Sharp, M.B., . . 285 



^YILLIAM BLACKWOOD & SONS, EDINBURGH, 



AND 37 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON. 



JoH.v Smith & Son, Glasgow; Lewis Smith, Aberdeen; John Christie, Perth 

 W. KiDD, Dlndee; G. Walker, Montrose; J. Cook & Son, St Andrews; 

 J. & J. H. Rl'therkl'rd, Kelso; R. S. Shearer, Stirling; 

 W. RL Dick, Ayr ; John Anderson & Son, Dumfries. 



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