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SWIFT. Universal. No summer is complete without this weird 

 screamer. It is designated the "Swallow Hawk." 



NIGHT-JAR. Have observed this bird in June and July, and 

 although not abundant it is a breeder annually about the glens 

 of the county. 



LESSER SPOTTED WOODPECKER. Dr. Howden recorded this bird as 

 having been got at Craigo. [We much doubt the identity of 

 this specimen. EDS.] 



GREEN WOODPECKER. If., in his notes on the ornithology of the 

 east of Scotland, says : " There are several instances of this bird 

 having been got in the eastern counties of the Union, from 

 time to time." [This again requires confirmation. EDS.] 



WRYNECK. Like H., I am of opinion it should be recorded for the 

 county, although no actual observation has been recorded. 



KINGFISHER. Breeds on the North Esk, and is seen occasionally 

 about some of the other streams and waterways. In 1893 one 

 was observed on the Luther Burn. 



CUCKOO. Every spring brings quite a number to the county. 

 Have seen the birds en voyage several times, and hear them 

 almost daily in the parish of Fordoun. Numerous instances 

 are to hand of their eggs being got, and also of the birds them- 

 selves being kept under confined conditions. 



(To be continued.} 



ON COPEPODS LIVING IN THE NOSTRILS 



OF FISHES. 



By THOMAS SCOTT, F.L.S., etc. 



IN the course of some recent researches on fishes and their 

 parasites, I have on various occasions made an examination 

 of the nostrils of fishes, and have frequently obtained free- 

 moving Copepods within these organs, apparently living on 

 the mucus that is usually present Where this mucus comes 

 from that is, whether it is secreted by a special gland 

 within the nostrils themselves, or enters into them from the 

 outside skin of the fish is a question about which, in view 

 of a paper lately published in the Journal of the Linnaean 

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