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In Memoriam : Howard Saunders. With Portrait. Plate!.. 1 



Notes on Birds observed in the Scottish Islands during the 



Spring and Autumn of 1907 — The Duchess of Bedfcmi . 2 



Bird ISotes from the Isle of May. 9th September-8th October 



1907 — Leonora Jeffrey Itintoul and Evelyn V. Baxter . 11 



Some Bird Notes from the Outer Hebrides during a Month 



spent there, May-June 1907 (continued). Plate II. — 



P. H. Bahr, B.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. .... 22 

 Notes on Coleoptera from St. Kilda — Prof. T. Hudson Beare^ 



t .li.b.h.^ r.jb.o. ........ 30 



Notes on Coleoptera from St. Kilda, mainly collected from 



Birds' ^ests— Norman H. Joy, M.R.C.S., F.E.S. . . 33 



Proposed Dealer's liaid on the Birds of St. Kilda and the 



Outer Hebrides ........ 35 



Juncus balticus, Willd. — Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. . . . 36 



Plants of Sutherland and Caithness — G. Claridge Druce, M.A., 



Jr .Ij.o. , . . . . . . . . ou 



Additions and Corrections to the Topographical Botany of 



Scotland (continued) — Prof James W. H. Trail, A.M., 



M.D., F.RS., F.L.S. 44 



Zoological Notes . . . . . . . . 49 



Rare Birds at Fair Isle — Wm. Eagle Clarke, F.R.S.E., F.L.S. ; 

 Rose-coloured Starling in Argyllshire — ^^ Ohan Times" ; Male 

 Reed-Bunting Incubating — Rt. Ron. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart, 

 F.R.S. ; Marsh Titmouse in Aberdeenshise — /. H. Gurney, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. ; Red-breasted Flycatcher at the Bell Rock Lighthouse — 

 Wm. Eagle Clarke, F.R.S.E., F.L.S.; Spoonbills in the West of 

 Scotland ; Flock of the Glossy Ibis in Orkney — R. W. Robinson ; 

 Glossy Ibis at Si3eymouth — George Muirhead, F.R.S. E. ; Note on a 

 Young Gannet — J. T. Henderson ; Early Nesting of the Shag — H. IF. 

 Robinson ; Nesting of the Quail in Scotland — Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert 

 Maxwell, Bart., F.R.S. ; Woodcocks and Blackgame in Dumfries- 

 shire — Rt. Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., F.R.S. ; Note on the 

 Waterhen — Hugh S. Gladstone, M.A., F.Z.S. ; Black - tailed 

 Godwit and Great Grey Shrike in Fife — Evdyn V. Baxter and 

 Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul ; Sabine's Gull in the Firth of Forth — 

 William Evans, F.R.S.E. ; Angler Fish in the Tay — A. M. Rodger ; 

 Lepidoptera from East Ross and other Localities in the North of 

 Scotland — Dorothy Jackson ; Amblyptilus punctidactylus — Dorothy 

 Jackson ; Cheiridium museorum and Chernes nifeolus in the Tweed 

 Area — Alastair Urquhart ; Sirex noctilio in Forth — IFilliam Evans, 

 F.R.S.E. 



Botanical Notes and News . . . . . . . 55 



Obituary Notices — Edward A. L. Batters, B. A. , LL. B. ; Patrick Neill 

 Eraser ; Rev. James Farquharson, D.D. ; Frank Townshend, F.L.S. ; 

 Cordiceps ophioglossoides in Peeblesshire — A. B. Steele; Rosa 

 hibernica in Banffshire — JF. Barclay ; Casuals near Aberdeen — 

 Prof. James W. H. Trail, A.M., M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S.; Fungi 

 from the Isle of May — A. B. Steele. 



Current Literature . . . . . . . . 59 



Book Notices ......... 62 



A Natural History of the British Alucitides. Vol. I. — J. IF. Tutt, 

 F.E.S. ; Gilbert White of Selborne— ?r. H. Mullens, M.A., LL.M.; 

 The Home-Life of some Marsh Birds — Fhotograiihed ami Described 

 by Emma L. Turner, F.L.S., and P. H. Bahr, B.A., M.B.O.U. ; 

 Mammals of the World— ^. F. Kirby, F.L.S., F.E.S. ; The Sense 

 of Touch in Mammals and Birds, with Special Reference to the 

 Papillary Ridges— fTaZ^er Kidd, M.D., F.Z.S. 



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