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    The Scottish crossbill (Loxia scotica) is a small passerine bird in the finch family Fringillidae. It is endemic to the Caledonian Forests of Scotland...
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  • Jamesiella scotica is a species of lichen thought to be endemic to the United Kingdom and Ireland. In the UK, it occurs in montane habitats in England...
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    Andrena scotica, the chocolate mining bee or hawthorn bee, is a species of mining bee from the family Andrenidae. It occurs in western Europe and is one...
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    Primula scotica, commonly known as Scottish primrose, is a species of flowering plant in the family, Primulaceae, the primroses and their relatives. It...
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    The red grouse (Lagopus scotica) is a medium-sized bird of the grouse family which is found in heather moorland in Great Britain and Ireland. It was formerly...
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    Margaret Bentinck, Duchess of Portland. He is best known for his Flora Scotica which pioneered the scientific study of the plants and fungi of Scotland...
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    entire run of the Proceedings since 1851, and its predecessor Archaeologica Scotica back to 1792, freely available on the internet. Scottish Archaeological...
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  • Pohlia scotica, commonly known as Scottish threadmoss, is a moss endemic to Scotland. The earliest records date to 1964 and this moss was recognised as...
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  • Empis scotica is a species of fly in the family Empididae. It is included in the subgenus Pachymeria of the genus Empis. It is found in the Palearctic...
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    modern-day Scotland was called Scotia in Latin, and Gaelic was the lingua Scotica.: 276 : 554  In southern Scotland, Gaelic was strong in Galloway, adjoining...
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    the family Anthracocarididae. The genus contains a single species, A. scotica, which was first named as a species of Palaeocaris in 1882, but later recognized...
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    selections from the hybrid between the two species, which is named Daboecia × scotica. The following cultivars have gained the Royal Horticultural Society's...
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    Herrich-Schäffer, 1848 Eupithecia latoniata Milliere, 1882 Eupithecia scotica Dietze, 1910 Eupithecia sobrinaria Boisduval, 1840 Geometra sobrinata Hubner...
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  • Thumbnail for Macrosaldula scotica
    Macrosaldula scotica is a predatory species of true bug, from the family Saldidae in the order Hemiptera from the western Palearctic. Macrosaldula scotica is notable...
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    Ulmus glabra (redirect from Ulmus scotica)
    Ulmus popovii Giga. Ulmus scabra Mill., C. K. Schneid., Ley, Ascherson & Graebner Ulmus scotica Gand. Ulmus suberosa Michx. Ulmus sukaczevii Andronov...
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    (1903) Membranicium velutina (DC.) J.Erikss. ex Y.Hayashi (1974) Peniophora scotica Massee (1889) Peniophora velutina (DC.) Cooke (1879) Thelephora velutina...
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    Species: S. mucronata Binomial name Scotopteryx mucronata (Scopoli, 1763) Synonyms Phalaena mucronata Scopoli, 1763 Ortholitha scotica Cockayne, 1940...
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    the Gaelic language, then simply called Scottish, or in Latin, lingua Scotica. In the Northern Isles the Norse language brought by Scandinavian occupiers...
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    Cream wave (redirect from Scopula scotica)
    Phalaena fulvostriata Goeze, 1781 Phalaena lactata Haworth, 1809 Scopula scotica Cockayne, 1951 Geometra remutaria Hubner 1799 Scopula spataceata (Scopoli...
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    fuliginosus) Lagopus Willow ptarmigan (L. lagopus) Red grouse (L. l. scotica) Rock ptarmigan (L. muta) White-tailed ptarmigan (L. leucura) Tetrao Western...
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    praeclara Burgeff, 1926 Zygaena loti restricta Stauder, 1915 Zygaena loti scotica (Rowland-Brown, 1919) Zygaena loti tristis Oberthur, 1884 Zygaena loti...
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    Constitutiones, in Re Ecclesiarum Orbis Britannici. Viz. Pambritannica, Pananglica, Scotica, Hibernica, Cambrica, Mannica, Provincialia, Dioecesana. Ab initio Christianæ...
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    fuliginosus) Lagopus Willow ptarmigan (L. lagopus) Red grouse (L. l. scotica) Rock ptarmigan (L. muta) White-tailed ptarmigan (L. leucura) Tetrao Western...
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    Scottish naturalist John Lightfoot wrote of it in his 1777 work Flora Scotica, calling Helvella mitra, or curled helvella. The fungus was formally described...
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    23943/princeton/9780691155319.001.0001. ISBN 9780691155319. "Miscellanea Scotica: Memoirs of the ancient alliance between France and Scotland. Account of...
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    fuliginosus) Lagopus Willow ptarmigan (L. lagopus) Red grouse (L. l. scotica) Rock ptarmigan (L. muta) White-tailed ptarmigan (L. leucura) Tetrao Western...
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    January 1872. Archaeologia Scotica pp. 261–84. Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, Volume 5, 1890". Archaeologia Scotica. 5: 261–284. Archived from the...
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  • Dalhousie. In 1618 David Ramsay of Polton was in possession. (See: Analecta Scotica, Edinburgh, 1834). Thomas de Quincey the English writer, lived here in...
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    botany. Among his publications are The British Jungermanniae (1816), Flora Scotica (1821), and Species Filicum (1846–64). He died in 1865 from complications...
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    "On the Account of the Life and Acts of Saint Patrick". Archaeologia Scotica: Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Society of Antiquaries...
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