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Report on Scottish Ornithology for 1908 — John Paterson . 193 



The Recent Remarkcable Visitation of Crossbills — Wm, Eagle 



Clarke, F.L.S., F.E.S.F . 215 



The Aquatic Coleoptera of the Solway District (continued)— 



Frank Balfour-Brovme, M.A, (Oxon.), F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. . 218 



On Some Scottish Siphonaptera. XL — James JFaterston, B.Sc, 



The High Alpine Flora of Britain : being a List of the Flower- 

 ing Plants and Ferns found at a Thousand Metres and 

 upwards on the Mountains of the British Isles, with 

 authentic References and Critical Notes (continued) — • 

 Frederic N. Williams, F.L.S. . . . . . . 229 



Euphrasia and Ehin^nthus — William H. Beeby, F.L.S. . . 234 



Carex helvola, Blytt, on Ben Lawers — G. Claridge Bruce, M.A., 



Jr,±j.o. . . . . o • • • , Zoo 



New and Rare Mosses from the West of Scotland (continued) 



— James Stirton, M.D., F.L.S. ... . . . 241 



Zoological Notes ..... . . . 246 



Great Cormorant — R. C. Haldctne, F.S.A. {Scot.) ; White - throated 

 Sparrow at the Flannan Islands — Fred. Smalley ; The Corn- 

 Bunting and Chiff-Chaff in Mull — D. Macdonald ; Heronries in 

 Mull — D. Macdonald ; Euddy Sheld-Duck at Sale Skerry, Orkney 

 — Wm. Eagle Clarke, F.L.S., F.E.S.F.; Pintail in Solway: an 

 explanation — Jas. Bartholomew ; Occurrence of Black-tailed Godwit 

 i in the Cromarty Firth — Annie O. Jackson ; Black-tailed Godwit in 

 ; Fife — William Berry, B.A., LL.B. ; An Adult Sabine's Gull at 

 Lerwick, Shetland — John S. Tulloch ; Capture of the Sagre off the 

 Shetlands — Wm. Eagle Clarke, F.L.S., F.E.S.F. ; Spinous Shark 

 captured off the Isle of May— Wm. Eagle Clarke, F.L.S., F.E.S.F. ; 

 Cryptocephalus aureolus in Strathspey : a Beetle new^ to the 

 Scottish Fauna — Ethel Clare Maitland-Dougall ; Lepidoptera of 

 the N.E. Highlands : a Correction — Dorothy J. Jackson ; Hydrach- 

 nids (Water-mites) from the Forth Area — William Evans, F.E.S.F. ; 

 Argyroneta aquatica in Perthshire — Alex. M. Eoclger ; Two New 

 British Diptera — Percy H. Grimshaw, F.E.S. 



Botanical Notes and News . . . . . . .250 



Additional Vice-county Records from West of Scotland — Prof. James 

 W. H. Trail, A.M., M.D., F.E.S., F.L.S.; Synchitrium aureum 

 near Aberdeen — Prof. James W. H. Trail, A.M., M.D., F.E.S., 

 F. L. S. ; Study of British Roses ; British Species of Taraxacum ; 

 Forms of Senecio vulgaris. 



Current Literature . . . . . . . .253 



Book Notices ......... 255 



The British Warblers : a History, with Problems of their Lives. 

 Parts II. and III.— Eliot Howard, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. ; A Tourist's 

 Flora of the West of Ireland — Eohert Lloyd Praeger. 



Index . 257 



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