CONTENTS 



PAGE 



Notes on some of the Birds of Bute, including Records of their 



Passage to the Mainland Rev. J. M. M 1 - William, C.F. . 25 



Vanishing Birds, and Birds that have already Vanished, on the 



West Coast of Ross-shire Osgood H. Mackenzie . . 31 



The Scarcer Fishes of the Aberdeen Market (Part II.) 

 JD'Arcy Wentworth Thompsoti, C.B., R.R.S. {Continued 

 from "Scot. JVat.," 191 7, p. 249) . . . -35 



Notes : 



The Golden and Amherst Pheasants Sir Herbert Maxwell, 

 Bt , 30; Hawfinch in Peeblesshire, Henry D. Simpson, 

 34 ; A Late Swift Bruce Campbell, 34 ; Stonechat nesting 

 in King's Park, Edinburgh Rev. William Serle, 47; 

 Easterness Mollusca W. Denison Roebuck, 47 ; Con- 

 volvulus Hawk-moths in -Bute and Perthshire Louis P. 

 W. Renouf and John Berry, 48 ; Phibalapteryx lapidata, 

 Hb., and Tortrix forsterana, Fb., in the Lothians William 

 Evans, 48. 



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