CONTENTS 



PAOR 



The Wigeon as a Scottish Breeding Speaes vefyn V. 



Baxter and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul . . '33 



The Garden Warbler and the Blackcap in the Clyde Area 



jToAn Robertson . . . . . .43 



Some Bird Notes from South Uist (cone/uded) Donald Guthrie 45 



Notes on Diptera in the Forth District, with Additions to the 



List A. E. J. Carter . . . . .49 



Notes : 



Peregrine preying on Merlin /okn Robertson, 48 ; Spotted 

 Redshank in East Renfrewshire Jo/in /Robertson, 48 ; 

 Rose Chafer (Cetonia aurata, L.) in Argyllshire Henry 

 H. Brown, 53 ; Asellus meridianus, Racovitza, in ^zo\.- 

 landlVatter E. Collinge, 53 ; Red-backed Shrike in the 

 Moray Area Annie C. Jackson, 54 ; Imitative Powers of 

 the Whinchat E, P. Butterfield, 54 ; Whooper Swans in 

 Scotland in Summer G^^^;^.? Beveridge, 54 ; Choughs in 

 Peeblesshire Henry D. Simpson, 55 ; Occurrences of the 

 American Wigeon in Scotland F. W. Snialley, 55 ; Ringed 

 Plover nesting inland in Clyde John Robertson, 56 ; Green 

 Sandpiper in Ayrshire Nicol Hopkins, 56 ; Winter Bird 

 Notes from Central Perthshire John Cramia, 57 ; Giant 

 Squid cast ashore on North Uist, Outer Hebrides /(^jw^^ 

 Ritchie, 57 ; Aphodius scybalarius, F., melanic variety 

 A. E. J. Carter, 57 ; Balaninus villosus, F., in Stirling- 

 shire A. Fergusson, 58 ; Antherophagus pallens, 01., and 

 A. nigricornis, F., in the Clyde Area A. Fergusson, 58 ; 

 Zicrona coerulea, L., in Arran A. Fergusson, 58 ; Spilo- 

 gaster uliginosa. Fin., in Forfarshire A. E. J. Carter, 58. 



Current Literature . . . . . -59 



Book Notices : 



Wild Sports and Natural History of the Highlands. Charles 

 St John. With Introduction and Notes by Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell, Bart. ...... 63 



Animal Life and Human Progress. Edited by Arthur Dendy, 



D.Sc, F.R.S. ....... 64 



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