INDEX 



535 



Lanarkshire Cont. 



Reindeer, prehistoric remains in, 338 



Snake, Ringed, as "escape" in, 299 

 Landrail. See Corncrake 

 Langwell and Sandside estates, destruction 

 of pests and vermin on, 126, 128, 136, 

 '37, 1 7 7, 182 

 Lantana bug, 461 

 Lantz, Prof. D. E., 431 

 Lapwings, as insect-eaters, 394 



decrease in numbers due to cultivation, 

 368 



destruction of eggs for food, 148 



transportation to colonies, 241, 242 

 Larch, Japanese, 456 

 Lark, Crested, 394 



Short-toed, 394 



Sky, destruction for food, 139, 266 



price of, 140 

 Lasioderma serricorne, 445 



lestacea, 410 

 Lathirsk, 270 



Lauder, Sir Thomas Dick, 325 

 Lauderdale, 282 



Laws, Game, 180, 198-215, 481 

 Leadenhall market, 139 

 Leaf-mining insects, 474 

 " Leaf- worms, "in Scottish greenhouses, 464 

 "Leather-jackets," increase of, 392 

 Leeches, 259 



in waterworks, 414 

 Leeds, 438 



Leges for estarnm, 59, 92, 309 

 Leith, ale of, 313 



birds of carrion as scavengers in, 224, 226, 



Cockroach, American, in, 436 



Oyster beds near, 153, 386 



Rat, Alexandrine, in, 428 

 Black, in, 427 



Raven in, 136 



shipbuilding at, 319 



skins and furs exported from, 155 



transportations in fruit to, 447 

 Lemming, Arctic, 14, 481 

 Lentils, pests introduced with, 445, 446 

 Leochel Burn, 294 

 Lepidosaphes beckii, 461 f.-n. 



ulmi. See Scale Insects, Mussel 

 Lepistna, 404 



I^eptyphantes nebulosus, 404 

 Lepus europceus. See Hare, Common Brown 



texianus, 369 



timidits. S*e Hare, Alpine or Variable 



Leslie, Bishop Jhone, 6, 35, 39, 61, 62, 66, 



88, 105, 114, 119, 140, 149, 155, 184, 



194, 208, 248, 266, 312, 326, 355, 376, 



426 



Lesser tia dentichdis, 416 

 Letterfearn MS., 320 

 Leucotermes flavipes , 440 

 Leven, Loch, bird life of, 372 



Char, disappearance from, 372 



Leven, Loch Cont. 



Leech, medicinal in, 259 



Trout, transportation of, 241, 278 

 Lewis, Carp in, 277 



Hare, Alpine, in, 282 

 Common Brown, in, 280 



Hive bee in, 107 



Horse in, 74 

 Lewis, Francis J., 305 

 Libert on parish, 316 

 Lice, Clothes, 421 



Crab, 421 



distribution by man, 421 



Head, 421 



increase during War, 396 



plant, 392 



Liddesdale, 164, 427 

 Lighthouses and lights, destruction of birds 



b >'. 377-379 

 Lilford, Lord, 256 

 Limax tuaximus, 416 

 Limtuea peregra, 466. See also Snails, Pond 



stagnalis and glabra, 298 



tritncatula, 373, 514 

 Liinnophora seftem-noiala, 403 

 Liinosa limosa, \ 9 1 

 Limpet, Slipper, 424 

 Lincolnshire, 371, 509 

 Lindsay, Alexander, 224 



Robert, of Pitscottie, 41, 66, 83, 208, 



210, 266 

 Linhope, 164 

 Linlithgow, 118, 121 f.-n. 

 Linlithgowshire, ague in, 509 



Deer, Red, prehistoric remains in, 333 

 Roe, in, 332 



numbers of domestic animals in culti- 

 vated area of, 494 



Polecat in, 164 

 Linnean Society, 469 

 Linnets, 193, 230, 242, 394 

 Linnhe, Loch, 178, 314 

 Linton Loch, 157, 336 

 Liothrix htteus, 283 

 Liponysstis bursa, 420 

 Lismore and Appin, 352, 398 



Island, 178 

 Lithgow, William, 46 

 Littlewood, 165 



Liver-fluke of sheep, 373, 422, 514 

 Liver-rot, disappearance due to reclamation 



of swamps, 373, 514 

 Liverpool, 470 



Livestock, parasites introduced with, 422 

 Lizards, transportation with bananas, 448 



with timber, 469 

 Lobster, destruction for food, 154 



protection for food, 220 

 Lochaber, Beaver in, 158 



Capercaillie in, 355 



forest, destruction in, 312, 319 



numbers of domestic stock in, 494 



Wolf in, 119, 319 



