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EUVANESSA antiopa in Scotland. Reported by W. H. 

 St Quintin, in Kincardineshire, at about 1800 ft, on 21st August 

 {Field, 8th September), and at Dinnel, on Deeside, on 7th August 

 {Country Life, 18th August). Both records are reproduced in the 

 Entomologist, November 1917, p. 2 5 8. 



Mollusca in Scotland. Many Scottish records appear in the 

 Journal of Conchology, 191 7, p. 224. They range from the counties 

 of Lanark, Perth, Elgin, Forfar, and Dumbarton to Ross; and from 

 the western isles of Arran, Mull, and Barra to the Orkneys. Most 

 interesting is the occurrence of Segmentina lineata in Elginshire 

 the first "authenticated" Scottish specimen, and of Hygromia 

 hispida at Stromness, which, if the record be a good one, extends 

 the limit of distribution northwards from Kincardineshire. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



Handbook to Lord Lilford's Coloured Figures of the 

 Birds of the British Islands. By Hugh S. Gladstone, M.A., 

 etc. London : Bickers & Son, 1917. Price 12s. 6d. 



This Handbook furnishes a complete history of one of the most 

 beautiful books ever published on any section of the Lritish Fauna. 

 That such a guide, if we may so term it, should have been deemed a 

 desideratum in the interests of the bibliophile is amply demonstrated 

 by Mr Gladstone's booklet. 



Lord Lilford's work was not, in the earlier stages of its issue, the 

 great hit that it was eventually destined to be. Indeed it was not 

 until Air Archibald Thornburn's charming pictures appeared that the 

 Figures became an unqualified success. This change in the book's 

 career was so remarkable that a second edition was called for long ere 

 the first was nearly completed a situation which led to the remarkable 

 complications which are so fully and ably dealt with by Air Gladstone. 

 That it is difficult in this notice even to allude to the nature of these 

 differences between the two editions, or the methods adopted for their 

 elucidation, may be gleaned from the fact that they have required more 

 than sixty-nine pages of letterpress, including much elaborate tabulated 

 matter, for their consideration. 



A study of this Handbook leads to the conclusion that it is a master- 

 piece of bibliographical research we much doubt if a single item has 

 escaped its author's notice. 



