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Fr., var. rubescens, Cooke, from Largo, found by W. G. Smith. New and 

 Rare British Fungi, by W. Phillips and C. B. Plowright describes the follow- 

 ing species new to Scotland, sent to them by Dr. Keith, all from Forres save 

 where mentioned specially — Ceo?na Laricis, Westd. on larch leaves ; Peziza 

 (Humaria) oocardii, Kalchb. on damp wood ; Cenangiiun tirceoliformis, Karst. 

 (from Grantown on stems of Vaccinurim Vitis-Idaea ; Diaporthe [Tetrastaga) 

 obscurans, Sacc. on ash ; Leptosphaeria praetermissa, Karst. on Rubus Idaeus : 

 Zignoella insculpta, Fr. on holly-twigs ; Fenastella blpapillata, Tul. on beech; 

 and from A. Croall on dead potato-stems at Siirling, Didymosphaeria Winteri, 

 Niessl, and Ophiobolus vulgaris, Sacc. 



SCIENCE GOSSIP {January 1885).— A New British Puccinia, by 

 W. B. Grove, describes and figures the Uredo and mesospores of P. Sonchi 

 Desm. on Sonchus oleraceur, from near Birmingham. A striking peculiarity is 

 the existence of a row of paraphyses surrounding the spores, under the cuticle. 

 {February) Night-heron (Nycticorax griseus L.) in Scotland, by J. M. 

 Campbell, records the capture of an immature female at Loch Creran in Argyle- 

 shire, believed to be the first occurrence of this species in the West Highlands. 

 Rossia macrosoma Delle Chiaje, by J. M. Campbell, records the addition 

 to the fauna of the West of Scotland of this cuttle-fish from Loch Creran. 

 Daubenton's Bat in Renfrewshire, by — Taylor. 



THE ZOOLOGIST [fitly.) Stock Dove in Perthshire, by T. Marshall; 

 Greater Forked-Beard [Phycis furcatus) on the Banffshire coast, b/ 

 Thomas Edward. [August) A New Species of British Wren, by Henry See- 

 bohm, with figure and description of a new form of wren peculiar to the islan 1 

 of St. Kilda, and named here Troglodytes hirtensis; Rose-coloured Pastor [F, 

 roseus) n Sutherlandshire and Golden Plover with White Primaries 

 by H. A. Macpherson ; Opah-Fish in Shetland ; Lumpetus lumpetri- 

 formis off East Coast of Scotland, by Dr. F. Day (from Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond). [September) Weasel (plentiful) in Skye, and Greenland Falcon in 

 Skye; by H. A. Macpherson ; The St. Kilda Wren, by Rd. M. Barrington. 

 [November) Dipper's Nest on the top of a Boulder, by Thomas Edward. 



JOURNAL OF CONCHOLOGY [October 1884).— The Land and Fresh 

 Water Shells of Caithness, by C. W. Peach, is a reprint of a paper read be- 

 fore the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh, March 26, 1864, but believed to 

 have been printed only in a newspaper report. In it are included from the parish 

 of Wick in Caithness, Sphaerium corneum, Pisiaium nitidum, Unio margari- 

 tifera, Valvata piscinalis, Planorbts nautileus, P. albus, P. glaber, P. spirorbis, 

 P. contort us, Limnaea peregra, L, iruncatula, A?icylus Jluviatilis, Arion ater, 

 A. hortensis, Limax flavus, L. agrestis, L. parvulus, Succinea elegans, Vitrina 

 pellucida, Zonites cellarius, Z. alliarius, Z. nitidulus, Z. crystallinus, Helix 

 nemoralis v. l/ortensis, H. arbustorum, H. rotundata, Pupa umbilicata, Clau- 

 silia rugosa, Cochlicopa rupestris ; and from Sutherlandshire, at Durness, Helix 

 rupestris, H. tricetorum, and Bulimus acutus. 



