CONTENTS 



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Bird-catching ; and other Editorial Notes ... . i 



Extraordinary Adaptability of a Stoat — Jas. Ritchie, M.A., D.Sc. 5 



Edinburgh Rookeries in 192 1 — William Evans, F.R.S.E. . 9 



A Scottish Method of Bird-catching {Illustrated) — O. H. Wild, 



M.B.,Ch.B., M.B.O.U. ..... 13 



The Stinging of an Ichneumon Fly — Right Hon. Sir Herbert 



Maxwell, Bart., B.C., F.R.S. . . . . 17 



The Land and Freshwater Molluscs of some Islands of the 



Inner Hebrides — JV. Annandale, D.Sc, F.A.S.B., F.R.S.E. 19 



Notes: ' 



New Heronry in Forfarshire — D. G. Hunter, 8 ; Heronries in 

 Dee Area — A. Macdonald, 8 ; Leach's Petrels at N. Uist — 

 G. Beveridge, 8 ; Earliest Breeding Dates of Wigeon, 

 Shoveler, and other Ducks in Scotland — F. C. R. Jourdain, 

 15 ; An Optical Illusion regarding Herring Gulls — H. IV. 

 Robinso7i, 16 ; Large Skate off Harris, 8 ; Breeding of the 

 Painted Lady Butterfly in Arran — W. Evans, 27 ; Breeding 

 of Red Admiral Butterfly in Bute— C. H. Wild, 27 ; Mallo- 

 phaga (Bird-lice) on a Fulmar from the Forth — W. Evans, 

 27 ; British Limnobiid Crane-flies, new Species and new 

 Records, 28 ; Spread of the Rove Beetle, Phyllodrepoidea 

 cre?iata, in Britain — A. Fergusson, 28 ; A Rare Weevil, 

 Rhynchites harwoodi, in W. Perth — A. Ferguson, 30. 



Book Notices ....... 29 



Notes from the Scottish Zoological Park . . .31 



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