No. XL. OCTOBER 1880. 



THE 



SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



A QUARTERLY ^^ 



lllait.t^nie fff Eiitural listor^-oo«^' 



Edited by R BUCHANAN WHITE, M.D.,' F.LiS^ ,, . 



CONTENTS. 

 Zoology- 

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



/mz/^^/),— Colonel Drummond Hay, CM. Z.S., . . • ZZl 



Chaerocampa nerii at Crieff, — G. H. Raynor, 346 



Boldness of the Common Tern, — W.Traill, 346 



Phytology— 



A Botanical Report on the Loch of Rescobie, — A. Sturrock, . 347 



The Gaelic Names of Plants ((:<?w/m?/^^), — ^John Cameron, . . . 351 

 Preliminary List of the Fungi of Perthshire {conthmed),—YAi\i:o^, . 361 



Notices of Ne-w Books, 367 



Various Notes, . . . ' 370 



Insecta Seotica — 



The Coleoptera of Scotland (f(7«/mz/£'fl('), — D. Sharp, M.B., . . 371 



Title-page and Index to Volume V. 



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