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On the Storm of January, 191 2, in the Bay of St Andrews. — 



Prof. W. C. M'Intosh, F.R.S. .... 73 



The Little Auk Visitation of 1911-1912 . . . 77 



Some Trees in which the Great Spotted Woodpecker (Den- 

 drocopus major, Linn.) has Bored or Nested in Scotland. — 

 The Rev. H. N. Bonar, F.Z.S., M.B.O. U. . .81 



The Sandwich Tern {Sterna cantiacd) in "Dee": General 

 Status and First Nesting Record. — A. Landsborough 

 Thomson, M.A., M.B.O. U. . . . ^4 



Some Records of Coleoptera from Northern Scotland. — D. 



Sharp, M.A., F.R.S. ..... 86 



Notes ........ 88 



Otters in Wigtownshire — J. G. Gordon; Rooks and Lapwings 

 — A. Rudolph Galloway j Migration of Fieldfares — Hugh 

 S. Gladstone, M.A., F.Z.S.j Rock-pipit on the Clyde 

 Estuary — George Stout; White Wagtails on Migration in 

 East Ross — A?inie C. Jackson; Tengmalm's Owl in Shet- 

 land — Dr T. Edmonston Saxby ; A Note on the Gannet — 

 Evelyn V. Baxter, H.M.B.O.U.; Solamosse Geese — Hugh 

 S. Gladstone, M.A., F.Z.S.j Occurrences of Smews in the 

 Forth and Moray Areas and in Shetland — Kenneth C. 

 Crosbie, Alex. Mackenzie, and George IV. Russell; Smews 

 and Red-necked Grebes in the Firth of Forth — Win. Eagle 

 Clarke; Movements of Ringed Woodcocks — Hugh S. 

 Gladstone, M.A., F.Z.S.; Black-tailed Godwits in Moray 

 — Annie C. Jackson; Early Appearance of the Common 

 Tern on the Clyde — George Stout; Small Tortoise-shell 

 Butterfly Hibernating in Shetland — R. B. Kennar; 

 Hemiptera-Heteroptera from St Kilda — William Evans; 

 The Thorny Lobster {Palinurus vulgaris) in the Outer 

 Hebrides— James Ritchie, M.A., B.Sc. 



Book Notices ....... 94 



Gleanings ....... 94 



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