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less massive skull, narrower anterior and posterior nares, arched 

 orbits, much smaller tympanic bones, and by its much smaller 

 and more numerous teeth the lower jaw has 32 teeth on each side, 

 the upper jaw is broken. WM. TAYLOR, Lhanbryde. 



Blue Shark (Carcharius glaucus) at Ayr. At the same place as 

 the Bottle-nose Whale recorded above I also saw a specimen of the 

 Blue Shark which had been captured in Ayr Bay by Wm. Morrison, 

 fisherman, in his nets on the 6th September. It measured : 



Ft. Ins. 

 Length, from nose to tip of upper lobe of tail-fin 8 6 



Anterior curve of upper lobe of tail-fin . . i 18 



,, ,, pectoral fin (right side) . i 4 



HUGH BOYD WATT, Glasgow. 



Pied Flycatcher at Peterhead. In the early summer, two 

 specimens of the Pied Flycatcher were taken at Grange Gardens ; 

 several other birds answering to the description of the Pied Fly- 

 catcher were seen along by the Convict Prison at the same time. 

 WILLIAM SERLE, Musselburgh. 



Albino Magpie near Peterhead. A nearly pure white specimen 

 of the Magpie has been seen for some time on the farm of Clubs- 

 cross, July. Nearly twenty years ago one frequented this district 

 for a considerable time : the older people are always ready to talk 

 about it yet. WILLIAM SERLE, Musselburgh. 



Peculiar Variety of Jackdaw near Edinburgh. To-day, 

 29th August, when between Craigleith and the Dean House, I 

 noticed a peculiarly marked Jackdaw in a little flock of Daws. 

 Fortunately I had my binoculars in my pocket, so with them I 

 watched it for some time. It was cream-coloured on the body, 

 shading into light chocolate on the wing-coverts ; its forehead and 

 cheeks were dark ashy blue. WILLIAM SERLE, Musselburgh. 



Rose-coloured Starling at North Berwick. On the morning of 

 the 26th of July, a Rose-coloured Starling (Pastor roseus), well 

 known to Anglo-Indians as the Cholum or Jowarree bird, was seen 

 on the lawn of my house here. It remained feeding for a few 

 minutes, when something frightened it, and it flew away. I had, 

 however, a good view of it through a field-glass, and am satisfied as 

 to the identity of the bird, with which I was familiar in India. It 

 was in adult plumage. WILLIAM LOUDON, North Berwick. 



The White Wagtail (Motacilla alba) in Ayrshire. The White 

 Wagtail was not included in Gray and Anderson's paper ' On the 

 Birds of Ayrshire and Wigtownshire ' (" Proc. Nat. Hist. Soc. Glasgow," 

 vol. i.). Of its regular occurrence in Ayrshire at the present time, 

 however, there cannot be any doubt. I first met with it on 8th May 



