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Editorial ....... 193 



Bird Notes from the Isle of May Spring 19 14. Leonora 

 Jeffrey Rintoul, F.Z.S., H.M.B.O.U., and Evelyn V. 

 Baxter, F.Z.S., H.M.B.O.U. . . . .198 



Rare Birds in Aberdeenshire in 19 13. A. Landsborough 



Thomson, M.A., M.B.O.U. . . . . 201 



Black-headed Gulls in Dumfriesshire. Hugh S. Gladstone, 



M.A., F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. . . . . .203 



Diptera Scotica : VI. The Western Isles. Percy H Gritn- 



shaw, F.R.S.E., FE.S. . . . . . 205 



Notes . . f . . .213 



Large Sturgeon in the Solway Firth Hugh S. Gladstone; 

 Scottish Heronries Symers M. Macvicar; Nesting of 

 Twites on Ailsa Craig Charles Kirk; Dunlin brooding 

 Young Redshanks Russell G. Thinj Fulmars and Common 

 Guillemots at Butt of Lewis R. Cly?ie; Fulmars at Fowls- 

 heugh, Kincardineshire Coast Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul, 

 Evelyn V. Baxter, and L. R. Sutherland; Scottish Land 

 and Fresh-water Mollusca. 



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