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SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS. 



SCIENCE GOSSIP. 1S86 {April-Dec. ) Nothing relating to Scotland. 



1887 {February.) Axinus Crouliuensis, dredged, by Mr. A. Somer- 

 ville, in about thirty fathoms' depth in Gair Loch and Loch Broom. 



ZOOLOGIST {April, 1S86). Notes and Observations on British 

 Stalk-Eyed Crustacea, by Edward Lovett, enumerates and describes the 

 recorded British species of Crangon ; and mentions Scotch localities for most 

 of them. Habits of the Arctic Skua (Lestris parasiticus) as 

 observed in Caithness, by W. Reid. {May.) Sexual Characters 

 in the Salmonidse, by J. A. Harvie-Brown, records the capture of two 

 salmon in a river in X. W. Ross-shire, both having the horny projection on 

 the lower jaw, yet both females, containing well-developed ova. Review of 

 *' Rough Notes on the Birds observed during twenty years' 

 shooting and collecting in the British Islands," by E. T. Booth 

 (this work relates largely to observations made during residence in Scotland). 

 (fune.) Unrecorded Occurrence of the Bluethroat in East 

 Lothian, by George Pow (shot in May or June, 186S, at Belhaven, Dunbar, 

 and preserved there). (fitly.) Snow Bunting Breeding in Scot- 

 land, by J. A. Harvie-Brown (records the young being found in the nest, in 

 the Highlands). (August.) Opah or Kingflsh (Zeus luna) in Shet- 

 land (the specimen was exhibited in the Colonial and Indian Exhibition). 

 (September.) Rooks nesting on chimney tops (in Thurso), by L. H. 

 Irby. The Tree-Sparrow in Skye ", Iceland Falcon in Skye ; 

 and Late Retention of Winter Plumage in the Guillemot, near 

 Oban, on 25th June, all by Rev. H. A. Macpherson. jRare Starfish 

 (Asteronyx Loveni) off Aberdeen, by George Sim (not George Linn, 

 as printed in Zoologist). (November.) Report on Migration of Birds 

 in Spring and Autumn of 1885. (December.) The Yellow- 

 browed Warbler (Phylloscopus superciliosus) in Shetland (on 

 25th Sept., 1886), by J. A. Harvie-Brown. Black-headed Gull and 

 Common Scoter in Skye, by Rev. H. A. Macpherson. 



1887 (January.} On the Breeding of Arctic Birds in Scotland, 

 by Henry Seebohm, notes as breeding in Scotland the Snow Bunting, Ptar- 

 migan, Red-necked Phalarope, Whimbrel, Greenshank, and various sea birds, 

 and accounts for it, and points out that these birds breed in climates with a 

 July isothermal a little below 6o F., which holds for Scotland, but not for the 

 European continent till a far more northern latitude is reached. Snow 

 Bunting on Ben Nevis in Summer, by E. C. Moor. Distribution 

 of the White-bellied Brent-goose, by H. A. Macpherson, records one 

 shot in Skye, in October, 1886. (February.) Wax wing in Aberdeen- 

 shire (near Lumphanan, in December), by George Brown. Curlew Sand- 

 piper and Spotted Crake in Shetland, by J. T. Garriock. (March.) 

 On the former existence of Ptarmigan in South-West Scot- 



