CONTENTS 



PAGF 



The Occurrence of the Hooded Seal (Cystophora cristata, Erxleben) 

 in Benbecula — J. Mac Naught Campbell ', F.Z.S. 



Report on the Great Skua (Slercorarius catarrhactes, Linnaeus); in 



Shetland during the season of 1891 — William Eagle Clarke . 87 



On Malformed Trout from Scottish Waters. No. I. — R. H. 



Traquair, M.D., FR.S. Plates III., IV., V. ... 92 



Notes on the Freshwater Fishes of the Sol way Area — Sir Herbert 



Maxwell^ Bart., F.L.S. . . . . . . . 103 



Additions to the Authenticated Comital Census of the Land and 

 Freshwater Mollusca of Scotland — IVm. Denison Roebuck, 



Ji m -/-/• O . • • • • • • » • • • 1U4 



Some Additions to Scottish Coleoptera, with Notes on Species New 

 or Rare in the " Solway " District — W. Lennon, and W. D. R. 

 Douglas, M.A., F.L.S. , F.E.S. . . . . . .107 



Potamogeton undulatus, Wolfgang, in Stirlingshire — Alfred Fryer . 115 



Records of Scottish Plants for 1891, additional to "Topographical 



Botany," Ed. 2 — Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. . . . . 119 



Plants of Glen Spean, Westerness — G. Claridge Druce, M.A., F.L.§. 127 



Zoological Notes . . . . . . . . .131 



Mole in the Island of Ulva — /. A. Harvie-Brown ; Hedgehog in Shetland 

 — /. A. Harvie-Brown ; Varieties of the Otter in Jura — H. Evans, 

 F. Z. S. ; Wild Cat in Sutherland — E. T. Baldwin ; On the appearance 

 of the Brown Rat on Ailsa Craig — /. Mac Naught Campbell, F.Z.S. ; 

 Melanic Variety of the Rat in No \ Uist — /. G. Webster ; Notes on' 

 the Vole Plague — R. Service ; The jWrel in Wigtonshire — Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell, Bart., F.L.S. ; Occurrence of the Chiff- Chaff in Banffshire — 

 L. W. Hinxman, B.A. ; Dipper in North Uist — /. A. Harvie-Brown ; 

 Great Grey v Shrike in Solway District — R. Service ; Red-backed Shrike 

 at the Pentland Skerries — /. Gilmour ; Waxwing in Berwickshire — R. 

 Small ; Waxwing in Caithness — L. Dunbar ; Rook Singing — N. Mac- 

 lachlan, M.A. ; Rollers in Caithness — L. Dunbar; Dichromatism in 

 the Tawny Owl — E. M. Harbrouch ; Hen Harrier in Caithness — L. 

 Dunbar ; Rough-legged Buzzard near Kingussie — C. B. Macpherson ; 

 Albino Cormorant — T. S. Peace; The Bittern in Wigtonshire — Sir 

 Herbert Maxwell, Bart., F.L.S. ; Bittern at Moffat— ,4. Fyfe ; The 

 Shoveller Nesting in Sanday, Orkney — W. Harvey ; Great Bustard in 

 Orkney — T. S. Peace ; Oystercatcher Incubating under Difficulties — 

 Lieut. -Col. W. H. M. Duthie; The Gray Phalarope in Barra — Dr. J. 

 MacRury ; Ruff in the Outer Hebrides — Dr. J. MacRury ; Whimbrel 

 Wintering in Barra — Dr. J. MacRury ; Occurrences of the Iceland Gull 

 on the West and North Coasts of Scotland — His Grace the Duke 

 of Argyll, K.T., F.R.S. ; Col. Malcolm, M.P. ; D. Mackenzie; L. 

 Dunbar ; Glaucous Gull in the Solway — R. Service ; Great Crested 

 Grebe in the Tay — W. A. Brown ; Occurrences of Labrus mixtus on 

 the West Coast of Sutherlandshire — A. Beveridge, M.B. ; Deilephila 

 galii and Macroglossa bombyliformis in Jura — H. Evans, F.Z.S. ; Is 

 Amphithopsis latipes a Commensal? — T. Scott, F.L.S. ; Hasmobaphes 

 cyclopterina in the Firth of Forth — T. Scott, F.L.S. ; The Food of Sagitta 

 — T. Scott, F.L.S. 



Botanical Notes and News ,. . . . . . .143 



Linaria minor in Stirlingshire — R. Kidston, F.R.S.E., and F. S. Stirling. 



Current Literature . . . . . . . . .144 



Reviews . . . . . . . . . . .147 



British Fungi — George Massee ; A Monograph of the Myxogastres — George 

 Massee. 



Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. 



