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the European and Asiatic continents. "In Norway and Sweden," 

 says Professor Newton,* " it breeds in the higher sub-alpine dis- 

 tricts, and in Lapland, even to the North Cape, is the most common 

 bird of prey." Mr Wheelwright + says, that in one district of 

 Lapland more than fifty nests were destroyed during the spring of 

 1862. It was obtained this year by Messrs Seebohm and Harvie- 

 BrownJ on the banks of the Petchora. It is known in Turkey 

 and Greece, and has been observed in Italy and Sardinia. Its 

 nest has been taken in England, and rarely in Scotland, where 

 it is an autumn migrant. Specimens have been obtained nearly 

 every year, but seldom if ever in the same numbers as during the 

 past winter. 



Obs. When on the subject of Buzzards, I may read the follow- 

 ing notice which has been kindly sent me by Mr Gray: "A very 

 fine Honey Buzzard {Pernis apivorus) was shot at Kilberry, Argyll- 

 shire, in the end of September, by Mr Campbell of Kilberry. The 

 specimen is a young male, and the first bird in this plumage I 

 have ever seen." This species is uncommon on the west coast of 

 Scotland, although it has several times been obtained, and has 

 even bred, on the east coast. 



In illustration of his paper, Mr Lumsden exhibited a series of 

 specimens of the Eough-legged Buzzard, both mounted and in 

 the flesh, and expressed his indebtedness to Mr Alexander Martin, 

 Exchange Square, and to Messrs M'Culloch & Sons, Sauchiehall 

 Street, who had lent some of them for exhibition. 



II. — Notes on a feio of the Tube-huilding Annelids. 

 By Mr David Eobertson, F.L.S., F.G.S. 



The few annelid tubes that I now bring under your notice may 

 be considered fair specimens of "Homes without Hands." It is not, 

 however, to the suitability of these "homes," or to the various wants 

 of their occupants, that I wish to draw your attention, but to the 

 style of architecture maintained by each species. Omitting those 

 that secrete calcareous, chitonous, and leathery tubes, I will 

 confine the remarks that I have to make to those which build with 



* Yarrell's History of Brit. Birds, 4tli ed., vol. i., p. 117. 

 f Spring and Summer in Lapland. 

 t " Ibis," Third Series, vol. vi., p. 110. 



