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The Scottish Naturalist. 



(July )— Re-appearance of Pallas' Sand-Grouse in the 

 British Islands. Numerous records from Scotland, in letters 

 from William Evans and John Ross. 



(August) — Golden Plover carrying" its Young (between its 



legs, observed in Peebles-shire), by T. G. Laidlaw. Dipper's 

 Nest in a Tree (overhanging the river Don, ? in Aberdeen- 

 shire), by George Rooper. 



(Sept.)— Bottle-nosed Dolphin in the Solway Firth, by 



Robert Service, records a specimen of D. Tursio being stranded 

 on Mersehead Sands, parish of Kirkbean, Kirkcudbrightshire. 



The Crossbill in the Hebrides (in Eigg and Skye), by H. 

 A. Macpherson. 



(Oct.)— On the Habits of the Manx Shearwater (as ob- 

 served in Eigg), by H. A. Macpherson. Bird Pests of the 

 Farm, by H. H. Scott, and comments upon the paper by R. J. 

 Graham Simmonds and Gilbert Millar, both abridged from a local 

 Northumbrian newspaper, state forcibly the mischief done on 

 farms by rooks, sparrows, and wood-pigeons, putting the loss per 

 acre at from 2s 3d to 4s 6d, five-eighths of the damage being done 

 by rooks, one-fourth by sparrows, and one-eighth by wood-pigeons. 

 Dipper Nesting in a Tree (near Banchory, on the Dee), by 

 J. Whitaker. 



(Nov.)— On the Birds of the Island of Eigg, by A. H. 

 Macpherson, B.A., and H. A. Macpherson, M.A. Manx 

 Shearwater Nesting in Skye, by H. A. Macpherson. 

 1889 {Jan. )— N esting of the Hobby in Scotland (near Kinnaird 

 House in Perthshire), by Edward Newton. The Smew in 

 Perthshire (at Stormontfiekl), by Th. Marshall. Ring 



Ouzel-breeding- in Orkney, by J. W. Trail, (quoted from 

 Scott. Nat., 18S8, p. 344). 

 (Feb.)— Habits of the Manx Shearwater (nesting at Rum at 



more than 2000 feet above the sea), by H. A. Macpherson. 



(March)— The Roe-deer (Capreolus Caprea), by J. E. Harting, is 

 an account of the habits and other characteristics of this graceful 

 animal, both in England and in Scotland, and is accompanied with 

 an excellent plate. 



(May)— Daubenton's Bat, by J. E. Harting, illustrated by a 

 plate, inadvertently issued with the April number of the Zoologist, 

 The distribution in Scotland is here detailed. In The status of 

 the Firecrest as a British Bird, Mr. J. H. Gurney says that 

 "the Scottish records, as Mr. Saunders justly remarks, stand 

 greatly in need of confirmation." Sand Grouse in Ayrshire, 

 (near Dalrymple Station, in April, 1S88, and near Maybole, on 

 I2th December, 1888), by James Sargent. 



(June)—WL\is hibernicus Thomps. restored to the British 

 Fauna, quoted from Harvie Brown and Buckley's Vertebrate 

 Fauna of the Outer Hebrides. Strange capture of a Golden 

 Eagle (taken at Farraline in Stratherrick owing to its talons 



