CONTENTS 



HAGB 



In Memoriam, Professor J. W. H. Trail, A.M., M.D., F.RS., 



F.L.S. /. J^. ...... I 



On the Report of the Departmental Committee on the Protec- 

 tion of Wild Birds ^. V. B. and L. J. R. . . 7 



Occurrences of the American Wigeon in Scotland y. Alastair 



Anderson, Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul and Evelyn V. Baxter . 13 



The Gadwall as a Scottish Breeding Species Evelyn V. 



Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul . . .15 



Eumerus strigatus and other Diptera in the Forth Area 



Willia7n Evans, F.R.S.E. . . . .21 



Notes: 



New Breeding Place of the Great Crested Grebe in Selkirk- 

 shire //. Harold G. Lees, 5 ; Great Crested Grebes in 

 Forfarshire Douglas G. Hunter^ 6 ; Arrival and Breeding 

 of Great Crested Grebes at Dupplin Lochs Joh7i Crannia^b; 

 Mountain Hare on the Shor^ in Summer John Robertson, 

 14; Halyzia i6-guttata, L., in Dumbartonshire William 

 Evans, 14 ; Glaucous Gulls in Kinross-shire C C. Keid, 

 20 ; Oxygrapha (Leptogramma) niveana in East Lothian 

 Alice Baljour, 20; Cephenomyia rufibarbis, Mg., in Atholl 

 A. E. J. Carter, 20 ; Bird Notes from Shetland John 

 S. Tulloch, 28 ; Reed- warbler in Shetland T. G. Kay, 28 ; 

 Skipper or Saury in the Firih of Forth Bruce Campbell, 

 28 ; Skipper or Saury in the Outer Hebrides George 

 Beveridge, 29 ; Diptera new to the Scottish List A. li. J. 

 Carter, 29. 



Current Literature ...... 30 



Book Notice : 



A Handbook to the Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales 



H. E. Forrest ...... ^2 



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