CONTENTS 



PAGIi 



Discovery of Horn-Sheath of the Prehistoric Celtic Shorthorn 



Ox in Peeblesshire James Ritchie, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S.E. 65 



On the Proposed New Subspecies of the Little Owl {Carine 

 noctiia {Scopoli)) Walter E. Collinge, D.Sc, F.L.S., 

 M.B.O.U. . . . . . . .69 



Breeding Colonies of the. Black-headed Gull in the Forth Area 



William Evans, F.R.S.E., M.B.O.U. . . 1^ 



Notes on the Insect Fauna of South Uist Percy H. Griiiishaiv, 



F.R.S.E., FE.S. ...... 85 



A New British Mosquito F. W. Edwards, B.A., FE.S. . 91 



Notes: 



Nesting of the Wild Swan in West Perthshire E. //. Place 

 and W. E. C, 68 ; Cuckoo's Eggs in the Nest of Common 

 Sandpiper T. G. Laidlaw, 70 ; Some further Notes on 

 "Blue" Fulmar William Eagle Clafke, 83; Nesting of 

 the Shoveler in the Lothians William Evans, 84 ; Black 

 Terns on the Kelvin D. Macdonald, 84 ; Northern Bull- 

 finch in East Lothian Alexander Cochrane, 89 ; The 

 Protection of Terns H. W. Robinson, 90 ; Ring Ouzel in 

 Outer Hebrides Fred. S. Bevcridge, 93 ; Great Spotted 

 Woodpecker in Argyll John H. P. Leschallas, 93 ; Shoals 

 of Squids in the Firth of Forth James Ritchie, 93 ; Xylo- 

 terus (Trypodendron) domesticus, L., and other Coleoptera 

 in Renfrewshire, 94 ; Henichus (Scydmasnus) exilis, Er., 

 in South Perth A. Fergusson, 94. 



Current Literature ...... 95 



Book Notices : 



A Geographical Bibliography of British Ornithology from the 

 Earliest Times to the end of 191 8, by W. H. Mullens, 

 H. Kirke Swann, and Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain . . 96 



The Heron of Castle Qx^^ Alfred W. Rees ... 96 



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