INDEX 



287 



Numenhts phceopus in Barra, 140, 199 

 Nyctea scandiaca in Argyllshire, 71 



Oak-galls, scarcity of, in 189 1, 80 

 Oceanites oceanica in Jura, new to Scot- 

 land, 18 

 Ord, George W. , entomologising in 



Ayrshire, 238 

 Orde-Campbell, Sir J. W. P., Bart., 

 the nesting of the Woodcock in 

 North Uist, 73 

 Otis tarda in Orkney, 138 

 Otter, varieties of in Jura, 132 

 Owl, Short-eared, and Kestrel in the 



Vole plague district, 219 

 Owl, Snowy, in Argyllshire, 71 

 Oxyporns rufits, new to Scotland, 108 

 Oystercatcher nesting under difficulties, 



139 



Peace, T. S. , Ruff in Orkney, 73 ; 



Albino Cormorant in Orkney, 137 ; 



Great Bustard in Orkney, 138 ; 



the occurrence of the Hooded 



Seal in Orkney, 268 

 Perthshire, nesting of the Water Rail 



in, 201 

 Petrel, Fork -tailed, unusual numbers 



of, 74 ; Wilson's, in Jura, new to 



Scotland, 18. 

 Phalacrocorax cai-bo, albino in Orkney, 



137. 

 Phalarope, Gray, in Islay, Jura, and 



S. W. Scotland, 72 ; in Barra, 139 

 Phalaroptis fulicariits in Islay, Jura, and 

 S.W. Scotland, 72 ; in Barra, 139 

 Phylloscopits rufus in Banffshire, 135 

 Phyllotreta noduorms, new to Scotland, 



109 

 Picus major in Scotland, 4 

 Pistillody of the stamens in the " Cham- 

 pion" potato, 245 

 Plants, first records of Scottish flower- 

 ing, 146; of Glen Spean, Wester- 

 ness, 127, 178; Scottish, for 1891, 

 additional to "Topographical 

 Botarty," 2nd Ed., 119; Scottish 

 Plants observed in July 1891, 

 185 ; new district-records, 54-69, 

 80, 83, 115, 120-131, 143, 147, 

 178-197, 204, 205, 207, 208, 209, 

 247, 260, 273-276, 277-279 



Plowright, Charles B., M.D., list 

 of fungi found at Stirling 1891, 68 

 Polecat in Dumfriesshire, 69 

 Porzana maruetta in Shetland, 71 

 Potamogeton undulatus in Stirlingshire, 



"5 

 Potato, "Champion, ' pistillody in the 



stamens ofj 2 ; 5 



P< >w, < ... Sit -it I tanbar, 70 



" Pou in- < Collection " of fossils, li>t oi 



the type and figured specimens in 



the, 31 

 PuffiiiKs major in Tiree, 74 

 Quail, the, former abundance of, in 



Wigtownshire, 168 

 Qaedius trzsti's, new to Scotland, 108 



Raia clavata, abnormally developed, 29 

 Rallus aquaticus, nesting of, in Perth- 

 shire, 201 

 Rat, Brown, on Ailsa Craig, 132 ; 

 melanic variety in North Uist, 

 134 ; Black, in Orkney, 267 

 Razor-fish in Lewis, 140 

 Reptiles, fossil, new Scottish, 232 

 Reviews — 



Melanism and Melanochroism in 

 British Lepidoptera, by T. W. Tutt, 

 F.E.S., 84 

 British Edible Fungi, by M. C. 



Cooke, 84 

 British Fungi (Phycomycetes and. Usti- 



laginea), by George Massee, 147 

 A Monograph of the Myxogastres, by 



George Massee, 148 

 Supplement to Sowerby's English 

 Botany, by N. E. Brown, A.L.S., 

 and Arthur Bennett, F.L.S., 209 

 Outlines of Zoology, by J. Arthur 



Thomson, M.A. , 210 

 The Lepidoptera of the British 

 Islands, by Charles G. Barrett, 

 F.E.S., 211 

 The Mammalian Fauna of the Edin- 

 burgh District, by W. Evans, 

 F.R.S.E., 211 

 A Vertebrate Fauna of Argyll and 

 the Inner Hebrides, by J. A. Harvie- 

 Brown and Thomas E. Buckley, 

 280 

 British Birds: Key List, by Lieut. - 

 Col. L. Howard Irby, F.L.S., - s i 

 Rhinoncus perpendicularis, new to 



Scotland, 1 10 

 Rhizophagus cribatus, new to Scotland. 



108 ' 

 Roach, in Wigtownshire, 104 



Robertson, Rev. J., list of fungi 

 found at Stirling, 68 



Rockall and its Avifauna, 197 



Rockling, Three-bearded, in the Sol- 

 way, 7: 



Roebuck, Wm. Denison, F. L.S., ad- 

 ditions to the authenticated comital 

 census of t lie land and freshwater 

 mollusca >'i Scotland, 104. 235 



Rollers in < Caithness, 130 



Rook singing, 135 _ 



Rook, the feather-billed: Is it a recently 

 developed variation or hitherto 

 overlooked ? 2 [8 



R(K ia ma rosotna, note on, 77 



