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Editorial .......... i 



The Great Spotted Woodpecker (Picus major, L.) in Scotland — 



J. A. Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., E.Z.S. . . . . 4 



On the Occurrence of Wilson's Petrel {Oceanites oceanica, Kuhl) in 



Jura — Henry Evans, F.Z.S. . . . . . . 18 



Freshwater Fishes of the Solway Area — Robert Service . . 18 



On Anarrhichas minor, Olafsen, and its Occurrence on the Aber- 

 deenshire Coast — Morris Young, F.E.S., and William Eagle 



Claj'ke, F.L.S. Plate I. ....... 26 



Note on an Abnormally Developed Thornback {Raia clavata, L.) — ■ 



R. H. Traquair, M.D., F.R.S. . . . . . 29 



List of the Type and Figured Specimens in the " Powrie Collection " 



of Fossils — R. H. Traquair, M.D., F.R.S. . . . . 31 



A List of the Macro-Lepidoptera of Balerno, Midlothian — E. W. 



Carlier, M.D., B.Sc. ........ 39 



Notes on Some Scottish Echinodermata — Thomas Scott, F.L.S. 



Plate II. . . . . . . . . . . 49 



On the Flora of Shetland — William H. Beeby, F.L.S. . . . 51 



Contributions towards a Flora of the Outer Hebrides — Arthur 



Bennett, F.L.S. . . . . . . . . 56 



Notes on Scottish Willows — F. Buchanan While, M.D.,F.L. S.,F.E. S. 64 

 List of Fungi found at Stirling — Charles B. Ploixjright, M.D., H. G. 



Ward, and Rev. J. Robertson . . . . . . 68 



Zoological Notes ......... 69 



Lesser Shrew in Fife — IV. Berry, B.A., LL.B. ; Polecat in Dumfriesshire 

 — R. Service ; The Blue-throated Warbler in Orkney — T. E. Buckley, 

 B.A., F.Z.S. ; Jay in the Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh — W. Serle, 

 M.A. ; Wrynecks on the East Coast of Scotland — W. Evans, F.R. S.E. ; 

 Snowy Owl in Argyllshire — His Grace the Duke of Argyll, K. T., F.R.S. ; 

 Spotted Crake in Shetland — /. A. Harvie - Brown ; The reported 

 occurrence of Grus leucogeranus in the Outer Hebrides — W. Eagle 

 Clarke; The Gray Phalarope in Islay — R. Scott Skitving; Gray 

 Phalarope in Jura — H. Evans, F. Z. S. ; Gray Phalarope in S. W. Scot- 

 land — R. Service ; The Nesting of the Woodcock in North Uist — Sir 

 J. W. P. Camfbell-Orde, Bart. ; Ruff in Orkney — T. S. Peace ; Buffon's 

 Skua in the Solway District — R. Service ; Buffon's Skua in the Scottish 

 Solway Area — Rev. H. A. Macpherson, M.A. ; Great Shearwater in 

 Tiree — /. A. Harvie-Brown ; Unusual Numbers of the Fork-tailed 

 Petrel on the Scottish Coasts — IV. Evans, F.R. S.E. ; Occurrence of 

 Triglops murrayi on the East Coast of Scotland — G. Sim, A.L.S. ; 

 Note on Zeugopterus unimaculatus and its Habitat — IV. Anderson 

 Smith ; The Three- Bearded Rockling in the Solway Firth — R. Service ; 

 Note on Rossia macrosoma — IV. Anderson Smith ; Saperda carcharias 

 in Elginshire — IV. Evans, F.R. S.E. ; Monochammus sutor in Mid- 

 lothian — W. Evans, F.R. S.E. ; Sphinx convolvuli . at Dumfries — R. 

 Service ; Sirex gigas in the neighbourhood of Dunbar — G. Pow. 



Botanical Notes ......... 80 



Cauliflower Disease of Strawberry at Aberdeen — /. W. H. Tf-ail ; Scarcity 

 of Oak-galls in 1891 — ■/. W.H. Trail; Euphrasia officinalis — F. Towns- 

 end, M.P., F.L.S.; The Biographical Index of British and Irish 

 Botanists — Janus Britten, F.L.S., and G. S. Boulger, F.L.S.; The 

 " Key to the Genera and Species of British Mosses ' ' — Rev. H. G. Jameson. 



Current Literature . . . . . . . . . 81 



Reviews ........... 84 



Melanism and Melanochroism in British Lepidoptera — /. W. Tutt, F.E.S. ; 

 British Edible Fungi, how to distinguish and how to cook them — M. C. 

 Cooke, M.A., LL.D. 



Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. 



