CONTENTS 



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Notes on the Primitive Breeds of Sheep in Scotland {concluded) — 



H. J. E/wes, F.R.S. ..... 49 



Bird Notes from the Isle of May in 191 1. — Evelyn V. Baxter, 



H.M.B.O. U., and Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul, H.M.B.O. U. . 53 



Freshwater Rhizopoda from the Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland 

 Islands, and Western Scotland ; with description of a new 

 species. — G. H. Wailes, F.L.S. . . . -59 



Notes . . . . . . .65 



The Presence of Functional Teeth in the Upper Jaw of the 

 Sperm Whale — A. J. H. Edwards ; Greater Wheatear in 

 Argyll — D. Macdonald j The Shore-Lark and other Birds 

 on the Haddingtonshire Coast — William Evajis, F.R.S.E.j 

 Continental Race of the Redbreast in East Ross — A?mie C. 

 Jackson j Honey - Buzzard reported from Wigtownshire — 

 The Right Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., F.RS.j 

 Bittern at Oban — Cecil H. Bisshopp j Occurrence of the 

 Black-necked Grebe on the Cromarty Firth — Annie C. 

 Jackson; Tadpole-fish in Largo Bay, Firth of Forth — 

 Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul, H.M.B.O. £/., and Evelyn V. Baxter, 

 H.M.B.O. U.j What is the Cellularia bassa?ii of Montagu ? — 

 William Evans, F.R.S.E.; The Common Spoon-Worm, 

 Echiurus pallasii, on the Coast of* Aberdeenshire — James 

 Ritchie, M.A., B.Sc. 



Book Notices ....... 69 



Gleanings . . . . . . .71 



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