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Bird Notes from the Isle of May Spring and Autumn 19 12. 

 Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul, H.M.B.O.U., and Evelyn V. 

 Baxter, H.M.B.O.U. . . ... 



The Song-Thrush of the Outer Hebrides Turdus musicus. 

 hebridensis a new Racial Form. Wm. Eagle Clarke. 

 F.R.S.E., F.L.S. (Plate I.) .- 



Molluscan Investigation in West Ross. Fred Booth 



Three Rare Species of Hydracarina. Wm. Williamson 

 F.R.S.E. ...... 



Notes ....... 



Bottlenose and Lesser Fin-Whales in the Moray Firth 

 William Taylor; Barred Warblers and other Birds in 

 Shetland Theo. Kay ; Tree Sparrows in East Ross J. A. 

 Harvie-Brown, LL.D., F.R.S.E.; Sparrows nesting in the 

 Foundations of Herons' Nests William Evans, F.R.S.E.; 

 Waxwing near Edinburgh Oliver H. Wild; Glossy Ibis 

 in Skye /. A. Harvie- Brown, LL.D., F.R.S.E.; Shoveler 

 in the Moray Firth/. A. Harvie-Brown, LL.D., F.R.S.E.; 

 Hybrid Capercaillie - Blackcock in Argyll Charles Kirk ; 

 Smews in Moray Area Annie C. Jackson ; Green Sandpiper 

 in Dumbartonshire Geo. Stout and Harry Duncan; Manx 

 Shearwater inland in Ayrshire The Duchess of Bedford, 

 H.M.B.O.U.; Fox Shark off Barra James Ritchie, M.A., 

 D.Sc; Distribution of Norellia spinigera, Ztt., in the British 

 Isles J. W. Yerbury, F.Z.S.; Trichothrips fiedicularius, 

 Hal., in " Forth " William Evans, F.R.S.E. 



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