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On New and Rare Crustacea from the East Coast of Scotland — 



Thomas Scott, F.L. S. , and Andrew Scott. Plates VI. and VI I. 1 49 



Contributions to the Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland and Caithness 



— T. E. Buckley, B.A., F.Z.S., etc 156 



On the Former Abundance of the Quail (Coturnix communis, 



Bonnaterre) in Wigtownshire — Peter Adair . . . .168 



On the Supposed Breeding of the Sclavonian Grebe {Podicipes 



auritus, L.) in Ross-shire — A. H. Evans, M.A., F.Z.S. . 171 



Lochinver as a Locality for Lepidoptera — Wilfrid W. Q 

 Beveridge, M.B. (Edinburgh); with Note by F. Buchanan 

 White, M.D., F.L.S., F.E.S. 172 



Plants of Glen Spean, Westerness {Continued) — G. Claridge Druce, 



M.A., F.L.S. 178 



On some Scottish Plants observed July 1891 — Rev. E. S. 



Marshall, M.A., F.L.S. . . . . . . .185 



The Desmidiese of East Fife — John Roy, LL.D. . . . .193 



Zoological Notes . . . . . . . . .197 



Rockall and its Avifauna ; Notes on Birds in Barra — Dr. J. MacRury ; 

 Unusual Nesting Place for the Dipper — Lieut. -Col. H. M. Drummond 

 Hay ; Whitethroat in Barra — Dr. J. MacRury ; White Wagtail in Barra 

 — Dr. J. MacRury ; Swift in Barra — Dr. J. MacRury ; Great Spotted 

 Woodpecker in Stirlingshire — Fred. Laird ; Whimbrel wintering in Barra 

 — Dr. J. MacRury ; Buzzard in Forfarshire — Dr. Thomas F. Dewar ; 

 Note on the Sheldrake — Robert Service ; Nesting of the Water Rail in 

 Perthshire — Lieut.-Col. W. H. M. Duthie ; The Food of the Great Skua 

 — Jessie M. E. Saxby ; Eledone cirrosa in the Solway Firth — Robert 

 Service ; Diaptomus castor in the Braid Ponds near Edinburgh — 

 Thovias Scott, F.L.S. 



Botanical Notes and News ....... 203 



Fasciation in Austrian Pine — W. Forgan ; Linaria minor — Arthur Bennett, 

 F.L.S. ; Linaria minor on Railway Banks — P. IV. Maclagan ; Plants 

 new to Scotland recorded in Botanical Journals in 1892 ; " Notes on 

 the Flora of Stirlingshire " — Col. Stirling and Robert Kidston, F.R.S.E. 



Current Literature . . . . . . . . .206 



Reviews ........... 209 



Supplement to Sowerby's English Botany — N. E. Brotvn, A.L.S., and 

 Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. ; Outlines of Zoology — /. Arthur Thomson, 

 M.A.; The Lepidoptera of the British Islands — Charles G. Barrett, 

 F.E.S. ; The Mammalian Fauna of the Edinburgh District — William 

 Evans, F.R.S.E. 



Recent Additions to the Natural History Department of the 

 Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh — R. H. Traquair, 

 M.D., F.R.S 212 



Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. 



