CONTENTS 



PAGK 



Editorial . . . . . . . .49 



Bird-Parasites and Bird-Phylogeny . . . .51 



Movements of the Gannet as observed at the Butt of Lewis. — 



Robert Clyne . . . . . -55 



Observations on the Hatching of Stetiopsocus cruciatus. — {Miss) 



L. H. Hide, F.E.S. (Plate I.) . . . .61 



Notes : 



Birds and Aeroplanes — Henry Coates^ 66 ; The " Milkman's 

 Whistle '' of the Barn Owl — John Robertson, 60 ; Notes on 

 the Gannet — John Robertson, 66 ; Notes on the Extension 

 of Range of the Crested Tit — William Berry, 68 ; Rough- 

 legged Buzzard in East Fife — Evelyn V. Baxter and 

 Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul^ 68; Honey Buzzard in Berwick- 

 shire — T. G. Laidlaw, 69 ; Bernicle Goose in Berwickshire 

 — T. G. Laidlaw, 69 ; Landrail at St Kilda, 69 ; Little 

 Auks in the Perth District — Henry Coates, 70 ; Black- 

 tailed Godwit in Forth — William Evans, 70; Lycaena ~- 

 artaxerxes and Zygasna filipendul^e in Kincardineshire, 70 ; 

 Acronycta aceris on Birch in Aberdeenshire, 70 ; A new 

 British Moth, 70 ; Miscodera arctica, Payk., in the Forth 

 Area — William Evans, 71 ; Bembidium paludosum, Panz., 

 and Coelambus quinquelineatus, Zett., in the Forth Area — 

 William Evans, 71 ; Staphylinid Beetle from Orkney, 71 ; 

 A new British Ant, 65 ; Andrena trimmerana, K., and its 

 allies, 71 ; Simulium equinum, L., in Scotland, 72 ; Tri- 

 choptera (Caddis-flies) from Fair Isle, Shetland — William 

 Evans, 72. 



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