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Report on the Plague of Field- Voles in Scotland . . . 129 



The Whiskered Bat (Vespertilio mystacinus, Leisl.) in East 



Lothian — William Evans, F.R.S.E. . . . . 146 



Report on the Movements and Occurrence of Birds in Scotland 



during 1892 — Lionel IV. Hinxman, B.A. . . . 147 



Additions to the Authenticated Comital Census of the Land and 

 Freshwater Mollusca of Scotland — Wm. Denison Roebuck, 

 F.L.S. . . . . . . . . .164 



On Scottish Desmidieae — John Roy, LLJD. Plate IV. . . .170 



Zoological Notes . . . . . . . . .180 



The Gray Seal near Berwick-on-Tweed — George Bolam ; Golden Oriole in 

 Orkney — Wm. Harvey ; Nesting of the Snow Bunting in the Eastern 

 Cairngorms — Lionel IV. Hinxman, B.A., and IV. Eagle Clarke, F.L.S. ; 

 The Red-backed Shrike nesting in Lanarkshire — John Paterson ; Cuckoos 

 and Caterpillars — E. L. Macdowall ; The Merlin as an enemy of the 

 Vole — T. G. Laid law ; Quail in Midlothian — P. Adair; Fulmar Petrel 

 breeding in Papa Stour, Shetland — Adelaide L. Traill ; The Palmated 

 Newt in Inverness-shire — William Evans, F.R.S.E. ; Scottish Newts 

 wanted — William Eagle Clarke, F.L.S. ; On Neaera cuspidata and 

 Odostomia rufa, var. fulvo-cincta, in the Firth of Forth — Thomas Scott, 

 F.L.S. ; The Water Spider in Inverness-shire — William Evans, 

 F.R.S.E. ; Notes on Forth Annelida — Thomas Scott, F.L.S. 



Botanical Notes and News . . . . . . .186 



Alchemilla vulgaris, L. — P. Ewing ; Orchids and Rooks — James W. H. 

 Trail, M.A., M.D., F.R.S. ; Sundews and Butterflies — James W. H. 

 Trail, M.A., M.D., F.R.S. ; New Scottish Hawkweeds ; Experi- 

 mental researches on the Life-history of Uredineae ; Uredineae in 

 Scotland— J a mes W. H. Trail, ALA., M.D., F.R.S. 



Current Literature . . . . . . . . .189 



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