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with those from the Rough-legged Buzzard they are rather larger with the head 

 as broad as long, instead of longer than broad, and the " tache genitale " of the 

 male seems slightly different. 



D. atratus, N. — From rooks (Gorvwsfrugilegus), Dunipace, Kirkliston, etc. 



D. ocellatus, N. — From Hooded Crow (Corvus comix). Longniddry and 

 Dirleton, Dec. 1884, Tyninghame, March 1884 and April 1910, and East of Fife, 

 March 1906. From Carrion Crow (Corvus corone), Elie, Oct. 1884, Anstruther, 

 March 1906, and Dalmeny, May 1905. 



D. semisignatus, N. — Off young Raven (Corvus corax) from Strathyre, 1908 

 (coll. R. M. Adam); also [Shetland, Dec. 1905, and Oban, Sept.]. Apart 

 from the hosts, I confess I see no good character by which this and the last, 

 or indeed the last two, can be separated. 



D. guttatus, N. — From Jackdaw (Corvus monedula), Dalmeny, April 1905. 



D. subcrassipes, N. ( =picce, Denny) — From Magpie (Pica pica), near West 

 Calder, Dec. 1887, and Carlowrie, June 1908. 



[D. fulvus, N. — From Jav (Garrulus glandarius), Murthly, Perthshire, 

 April 1887.] 



D. communis, N. — From House Sparrow (Passer domesticus), Edinburgh, 

 Tree Sparrow (P. montanus), North Berwick, Ring Ouzel (Turdus torquatus) and 

 Blackbird (T. merula), the last two at Barnsness lighthouse, April. From Fieldfare 

 (Turdus pilaris), Mortonhall, and Mistle-Thrush (T. viscivorus), East Linton: 

 these two seem referable to var. merulce, D.. as characterised in Piaget's 

 work. From Pied Wagtail (MotaciUa lugubris), Dunbar, June 1885; has the 

 clypeus of var. rubeculce, as figured by Piaget. On 20th Oct. 1911, at the Isle of 

 May lighthouse, I took several examples of var. fuscicollis, 1ST., from a young 

 Woodchat shrike (Lanius senator), which was killed there the previous morning. 

 From Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes), Roslin, Sept. 1890 ; [and Crossbill (Loxia 

 curviroslra), Blairgowrie, Nov. 1911]. 



D. excisus, N. — One from young Swallow (Hirundo rustica), Dunbar, 

 Sept. 1895. 



D. laticeps, Giebel ( = cincli, D.) — From Dipper (Cinclus aquaticus), Bonaly 

 Ravine, Pentlands, May 1895. 



D. leontodon, N. — From Starling (Stumus vulgaris), Aberlady, Feb. 1908, 

 Dunbar and Isle of May, Oct. 1910. 



D. auratus, N. — From Woodcock (Scolopax rusticola). near Edinburgh, 

 Jan. 1886. 



D. limosae, D. — From Bar-tailed Godwit (Limosa lapponica), Aberlady Bay, 

 Sept. 1884, and Aug. 1887; also (?) one from Knot (Tringa canutus), Aberlady 

 Bay, August 1885. 



D. cordiceps, G. (? = cephalus, D.) — One from Greenshank (Totanus nebularis), 

 Aberlady Bay, Sept. 1884, and one from Curlew Sandpiper (Tringa subarquata), 

 Gullane, September 1887. 



D. temporalis, G. — One off Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus) from Elie, March 

 1906, and also, I consider, "from Grey Plover (Squatarola squatarola), Aberlady 

 Bay, Sept. 1885, and Golden Plover (Charadrius pluvialis), West Lothian, Sept. 

 1911. Very similar to the preceding species — possibly onlv a variety of it 

 (Piaget). 



D. humeralis, D. — From Curlew, Elie, August 1909; and also, I consider, 

 from a Whimbrel (Numenius phceopus), near North Berwick, Sept. 1886. 



D. testudinarius, D. — Common on Curlew (Numenius arquata), Aberlady, 

 Nov. 1886. 



D. acanthus, G. (ostralegi, D. and naumanni, G.) — From Turnstone (Strepsilas 

 interpres), Longniddry, Nov. 1885; Oystercatcher (Ucematopus ostralegus), Fife 

 coast, Sept. 1906; and Purple Sandpiper (Tringa maritima), Dunbar, Nov. 1906. 



