2i6 THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



Scottish Land and Fresh-water Mollusca. Amonsj the 



" Census Authentications " recorded by W. Denison Roebuck in 

 the Journal of Conchology for July (pp. 223-224), we note the 

 following : Kincardineshire : Arion hortensis, very pale-coloured, 

 Kinneff (Rev. J. R. Fraser) ; Peeblesshire : Hyalinia radiatula, 

 near Peebles (J. E. Black) ; Ross, East : Arion ater, Limax arborum, 

 L. and maximus var. fasciata, Cromarty (K. H. Jones). 



BOOK NOTICE. 



Report on Scottish Ornithology in 1913, including Migration. 

 By Evelyn V. Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul. Edinburgh : 

 Oliver & Boyd; London: Gurney & Jackson, 1914. Price is. 6d. 

 net. 



It is with great pleasure that we again welcome the appearance of 

 this important annual contribution to the history of our British birds. 

 We offer our congratulations .to the authors on the excellence of their 

 work, on the comprehensive lines on which it has been prepared, and on 

 the widespread sources from which the vast data on which it is based 

 have been drawn. In this latter respect it reminds us of the doings 

 of the celebrated author of the " American Ornithology," the Scotsman, 

 Alexander Wilson, who wrote from Boston, in October 1808, " I am 

 fixing correspondents in every corner of these northern regions, like as 

 many pickets and outposts ; so that scarcely a wren or tit shall be able 

 to pass from York to Canada but I shall get intelligence of it." This is 

 exactly what has been accomplished in Scotland, thanks to the energy 

 of the Misses Baxter and Rintoul, who have enlisted the co-operation of 

 no less than eighty-five recorders between the Tweed and Solway in the 

 south and the northernmost of the Shetland Isles. We must not, how- 

 ever, overlook the personal contributions of the authors, which have 

 added so very much to the value of the Report, but to which no refer- 

 ence is made therein. Some idea of the remarkable extent of the work 

 accomplished during the past year may be gleaned from the fact that 

 the records relate to no less than 223 species and subspecies, six of 

 which are additions to the Scottish avifauna, and one is even a novelty 

 to that of Europe. We should like to make one suggestion, namely, 

 that in future Reports where records of outstanding value have not 

 previously been published, the name of the reporter should be given ; 

 this we regard as being of material importance. The Report should 

 be in the hands of all who are interested in the varied phases of 

 bird-life in the British Isles ; it is not only of great value to 

 ornithologists, but, from the method of treatment of the subject, it 

 is rendered equally interesting to naturalists generally. 



