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must be reckoned among the rarer visitants of our British 

 shores. According to Mr. Service, through whose good 

 offices the specimen was presented to the Museum by Mr. 

 M'Coll, this species has only occurred three times previously 

 in the waters of Dumfries or Galloway. 



FRIGATE PETREL, Pelagodroma marina (Lath.) The 

 occurrence of this bird on the island of Colonsay on the ist 

 January of this year has been already recorded in the April 

 number of this journal (p. 88) by Mr. W. Eagle Clarke, 

 who, however, omitted to state that the specimen had been 

 acquired by the Museum of Science and Art. 



THICKNEE, CEdicnemns scolopax (Gmel.) A young 

 female specimen was shot at Muirhouse, on the I2th August 

 last, by Mr. Ripley Ker of Dugalston, Milngavie, and by him 

 presented to the Museum. Though a well-known summer 

 visitor to the southern parts of England, the Thicknee 

 becomes rare in the north, and the present is only the 

 second record of its occurrence in Scotland, a specimen hav- 

 ing been killed near St. Andrews in 1858. 



GREAT BUSTARD, Otis tarda, Linn. --The specimen 

 recorded in the " Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist." for 1892, p. 138, as 

 having been shot at Housebay, Stronsay, Orkney, has now 

 been acquired by the Museum. 



HONEY BUZZARD, Pernis apivonis (Linn.) A male in 

 immature plumage was shot by a crofter at Balta Sound, 

 Shetland, on 29th or 3<Dth July, and was acquired for the 

 Museum through Mr. Small, Edinburgh, to whom it was 

 sent to be stuffed. 



THE HARDIE COLLECTION OF FOSSILS. 

 By R. H. TRAQUAIR, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 



THE Edinburgh Museum of Science and Art has recently 

 acquired the valuable collection of fossils from the Upper 

 Silurian rocks of the Pentland Hills, made by the late Mr. 

 David Hardie, Bavelaw. This collection is noteworthy, as 

 containing the largest and most important representation 



