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Editorial . . ... . , ■ . . i 



Henry Eeles Dresser . . . . . .3 



Some Notes on Birds Moulting in their Winter Quarters. — 

 Lemiora Jeffrey Rintoul,- H.M.B.O.U.^ and Evelyn V. 

 Baxter, H.M.B.O.U. '. . . . • 5 



The Habits and Life-History of HyHemyid grisea, Fall., an 

 Anthomyiid Fly new to the.S.eottish Fauna. -^(Miss) L. H. 

 Hide, F.E.S. . . ' . ' . . . 13 



Coleoptera from Auskerry, Orkney.— Wtl/iam Evans, F.R.S.E. 21 



Notes: - ' 



Birds attracted by Lighted Tents — Fi'ed.' S.'Beveridge, 23; 

 Strange Diet of the Song Thrush — J. Kirke Nash, 23 ; 

 Uncommon Birds in Orkney — John Bain zxiA John G. 

 Thomso7i, 23 ; Crested Titmouse in East Ross-shire, 24 ; 

 Bee-eater and Yellow-browed Warbler in Shetland — George 

 W. Russell, 24 ; Great Grey Shrike in Dumfriesshire — 

 Hugh S. Gladstone, 24 ; The Generic Names of the 

 Swallows and Divers, 22 ; Diptera in a Forfarshire Garden 

 — A. E.J. Carter, 12. 



Book Notices : 



Hill Birds of Scotland, 4 ; Insects and Man, 11. 



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