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M.A., F.R.S.E. Tra?is. Perthshire Soc. Nat. Scie7ice^ vol. iv. part v. 

 (1908), pp. 213-228. — A list of Marine Molluscs, comprising 51 

 species, is given on p. 214. 



Mole Variation. Robert Service. Tra7is. Edin. Field Nat. 

 and Micro. Soc, vol. vi. part i. (1908), pp. 64-65. 



GoLDCRESTS FROM East Coast LIGHTHOUSES. William Evans. 

 British Birds, December 1908, pp. 232-233. — Specimens captured 

 at the lantern of the Isle of May and Barnsness Lighthouses in 

 October were of the British form. 



Hoopoe in Ross-shire. Col. W. H. E. Murray. The Field, 

 September 19, 1908, p. 547. — Specimen caught at Geanie's on 

 9th September. 



Scops Owl off Aberdeenshire, E. R. Paton. British Birds, 

 November 1908, p. 204. — Refers to a specimen captured on a 

 trawler, about 25 miles off the coast of Aberdeenshire in October^ 

 1900. 



A Marked Pintail. A. R. The Field, December 5, 1908, 

 p. 102 1. — Specimen shot on the shores of the Dornoch Firth at 

 Edderton, Ross-shire, with a metal ring on its right leg, marked 

 " H. Chr. Mortensen, Vigborg, Denmark, 366." 



On the Nesting of the Scaup Duck in Scotland. P. H. 

 Bahr, M.A., M.B., etc. British Birds, December 1908, pp. 209- 

 217, 4 figs. 



White Snipe in Argyllshire. H. M. B. The Field, 

 December 5, 1908, p. 102 1. — A pure white specimen, with black 

 eyes, shot at Coll on 21st November. 



Tern in Wigtownshire in October. J. Lawrence Sowerby. 

 The Field, October 24, 1908, p. 721. — A solitary tern, believed to 

 be the Sandwich Tern, observed off Barsalloch Point on 14th October. 



Fulmar Petrel in the Firth of Forth. W. F. T. Malloch. 

 Zoologist, October 1908, p. 396. — Specimen picked up dead at 

 Canty Bay on 17th July. 



Sphinx convolvuli and Acherontia atropos in Selkirk. 

 B. Weddell. Entomologist, November 1908, p. 272. 



Acherontia atropos in Inverness-shire. Henry H. Brown. 

 Entomologist, November 1908, p. 272. — Specimen picked up dead 

 at Milton, near Drumnadrochit, on 28th September. 



NOCTUA DITRAPEZIUM, A ScOTCH SpECIES. R. Mcldola. 



Entomologist, November 1908, p. 273. — Specimen taken at sugar at 

 Fortrose in August 1903. 



Note on the Scottish mountain form of Notiophilus 

 AQUATicus, L. G. C. Champion. Ent. Mo. Mag., December 



