98 THE. SCOTTISH NATURALIST 
a Scottish case which came to our notice the other day. In 
May a gamekeeper at Clune Lodge, Knockando, deliberately 
trapped a Rough-legged Buzzard, one of a pair that had 
haunted the neighbourhood for several days. Now the 
killing of a Buzzard is inexcusable because a Buzzard is 
no serious enemy of winged game, and in almost any other 
county in Scotland is regarded as a penal offence, but in 
Morayshire the slaughter of a Buzzard, and of many other 
desirable birds, may, with a proprietor’s permission, be 
undertaken with legal sanction even during the breeding 
season; for the county has not issued Supplementary 
Orders covering the cases of birds not scheduled under the 
Acts themselves. 
Anomalies such as this ought to be banished at the 
earliest possible moment; and now that the first-fruits of 
the Report of the Departmental Committee on Wild Birds’ 
Protection (1919) are apparent in the appointment of 
Advisory Committees at the instance of the Home and 
Scottish Offices, we would urge the desirability of an early 
effort at the realisation of the remaining recommendations 
of that Report, in the form of a new, comprehensive, and 
simplified enactment dealing with the whole complicated 
subject of the protection of wild birds in this country. 
Ripe in years and in service to the cause of science, 
William Taylor died in Elgin in June at the age of seventy- 
eight. He was an enthusiastic and discriminating collector 
of those unique fossils which have made famous the Old 
Red and Triassic deposits of the southern shores of the 
Moray Firth, and several new species of long extinct reptiles 
and fishes bear his name and witness to his skill. 
Death has also removed a well-known figure in the 
person of P. D. Malloch of Perth. Less interested in science 
than in sport, Malloch, nevertheless, possessed an interest 
in nature and a power of acute observation which united 
to make his work on the Salmon a real contribution to 
natural history. 
