CONTENTS 



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Editorial ....... 25 



A Sperm Whale in the Moray Firth. William Taylor . . 28 



Notes on Bird-Life in the Outer Hebrides as observed during 

 May and June 1913. Mary G. S. Best, F.Z.S., E. L. 

 Turner, H.M.B.O.U., and Maud D. Haviland. . . 30 



Supplement to Dr Sharp's " Coleoptera of Scotland " (continued). 



Anderson Fergusson . . . . .34 



A Few Spring Odonata, Neuroptera, and Trichoptera from the 



North of Scotland. W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S. . . 41 



Notes ........ 43 



Bank Vole in the Clyde Area Hugh Boyd Watt; The Birds 

 of Tiree Additional Records H. W. Boainson; The Birds 

 of Tiree Additional Records Annie C. Jackson; Some 

 Bird Notes from Shetland George W. Russell; Northern 

 Bullfinches in Orkney W. Eagle Clarke; Woodchat 

 Shrike in Orkney H. Laidlaw ; Nesting of the Pintail in 

 Moray Area Annie C. Jackson; Probable Breeding of 

 Tufted Duck in North Uist F. S. Beveridge ; The Great 

 Skua in danger of extermination as a native of the British 

 Islands ; Nesting of Great Crested Grebe in Moray Area 

 Annie C. Jackson; Scottish Records of Insects ; Thana- 

 simus rufipes, Brahm, at Nethy Bridge James J. F. X. 

 King; Leptura sanguinolenta, L., at Nethy Bridge James 

 J. F. X. King; Agrotis saucia, Hiib., and Cidaria associata, 

 Bork , in Forth Williajn Evans; Myrmica lavinodis, 

 Nyl., in West Lothian S. E. Brock ; Eriophyes tristriatus, 

 var. erineum, Nal., in Forfarshire. 



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