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Aberdeen University Bird-Migration Inquiry : First Interim 

 Report (1909-12) {continued). — A. Landsborough Thomson, 

 M.A., M.B.O.U. ...... 217 



On the Occurrence of the Little Owl in Fife. — Robert 



Somerville, B.Sc. . . . . .225 



A List of the Diptera met with in Wester Ross, with Notes on 

 Other Species known to occur in the Neighbouring 

 Areas. — Co/one//. W. Yerbury, R.A., F.Z.S. . . 226 



The British Species of the Dipterous Genus Fannia, Rob. Dsv. 



{concluded).— J. R. Malloch . . . -233 



Notes ........ 235 



Hedgehog in Argyll— Rev. Charles A. Hall, F.R.M.S.j Cuckoo 

 reared by Rock-Pipits at Ailsa Craig— Charles Kirk; Lap- 

 land Form of Bluethroat on the Isle of May— Leonora 

 Jeffrey Rintoul, H.MB.O.U, and Evelyn V. Baxter, 

 H. M.B.O.U. j The Tree-Sparrow Breeding in Midlothian— 

 Willia?n Evans, F.R.S.E.j Variety of Heron in Wigtown- 

 shire— Her Grace the Duchess of Bedford, H.M.B.O.U.j 

 Marked Grouse — Identification Wanted — A. S.Leslie, W.S.j 

 Black-tailed Godwit in the Outer Hebrides— D. Macke??siej 

 Sabine's Gull in the Firth of Forth— William Evans, 

 F.R.S.E.j Fulmars Breeding at Reawick, Shetland — 

 Alastair D. Carmichael ; Tunny in Shetland — John S. 

 Tulloch; Large Sunfish in the Forth— Alex. B. Wallace; 

 Unusual Numbers of the " Painted Lady " Butterfly in Fife 

 —Leonora Jeffrey Rintoul, H. M.B.O.U., and Evelyn V. 

 Baxter, H.M.B.O.U.j Death's Head Moth in Forth— 

 Evelyn V. Baxter, H. M.B.O.U., and Leonora Jeffrey 

 Rintoul, H.M.B.O.U.j Ixodes putus, Cambr., in Shetland — 

 Rev. James Waterson, D.D., B.Sc.j Recurrence of the 

 Cotton- Spinner off Mallaig— James Ritchie, M.A., B.Sc. 



Gleanings . . -. . . . .239 



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