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Aberdeen University Bird-Migration Inquiry : First Interim 

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

 M.A., M.B.O.U. ...... 241 



Note on the Food of the Common Pheasant. — Percy H. 



Grimshaw, F.E.S., F.R.S.E. .... 249 



On Mackayia dimorpha, a new Genus and Species of Mallo- 

 phaga from the Manx Shearwater. — Rev. James Waters ton, 

 B.D., B.Sc. . . . . . .251 



A new Species of Mackayia (M. heteracanthus). — Rev. James 



Waterston, B.D., B.Sc. . . . . .258 



Notes ........ 259 



The Hedgehog in Arran — William D. Congalton, M.A.j Bird 

 Notes from the Sol way — Hugh Mackay ; Female Greenland 

 Wheatear assuming Male Plumage — Evelyn V. Baxter, 

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

 Late Stay of Swifts about Edinburgh — William Evans, 

 F.R.S.E.; Notes on the Fulmar Petrel — G. D. Ferguson; 

 Micariosoma festiva, C. L. Koch, in Linlithgowshire — S. E. 

 Brock; The Painted-Lady Butterfly at the Isle of May, etc. — 

 William Evans, F.R.S.E.; Some Lepidoptera and other 

 Insects from St Kilda — William Evans, F.R.S.E.; Doco- 

 phorus melanocephalus, N., a straggler on the Knot in 

 Shetland — Rev. James Waterston, B.D., B.Sc. 



Gleanings . . . . . . .263 



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