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of the remains of a Lepidodendroid plant, scales and teeth of 

 apparently a species of Holoptychian fish, and Entomostracan 

 remains. They are contained in a grey, flaggy micaceous sand- 

 stone of the series, somewhat similar to that enclosing plant 

 remains of the same character at the Spout of Ballagan, in the 

 Campsie Hills, from which beds Mr. Burns also exhibited speci- 

 mens of plant remains in illustration of his subject. 



The Chairman also showed some specimens sent by Mr. Denholm 

 Young, the discoverer of the fossiliferous beds at Heads of Ayr. 

 These consisted of clay ironstone nodules, containing a species of 

 Myalina, and specimens from a thin band of Spirorbis helicteres. 

 He stated that these strata would be found, on close examination, 

 to yield a group of fossils interesting because of their close identity 

 with many forms found in the same division of the Carboniferous 

 strata oh the Fifeshire coast. 



Mr. James Lumsden, E.Z.S., read some notes communicated by 

 Sir George Leith Buchanan, a corresponding member of the 

 Society, on the occurrence for the second time on the banks 

 of Lochlomond at Ross Priory, on -itli October, of the Wood 

 Sandpiper, Totanus glareola (Linn.). Mr. Lumsden stated that, 

 at the meeting of the Society, in October, 1872, he had exhibited 

 a specimen of this species obtained at the same place by the 

 same careful observer. The specimen now recorded was thought 

 by Sir George, when first observed, to be a Dunlin, which 

 shows that one well acquainted with birds may be mistaken 

 in identifying the Wood Sandpiper at first sight, from its close 

 likeness to other species. It is possible, therefore, that specimens 

 may often escape notice, and may be of more frequent occurrence 

 on the West Coast than is generally supposed. Mr. Lumsden 

 stated that since 1872 he had not seen or heard of any certain 

 occurrence of the Wood Sandpiper in the West of Scotland. 

 About three years ago a specimen was reported to have been got 

 in Argyllshire, but on such uncertain authority that it does not 

 deserve record. 



Mr. James B. Murdoch stated that, although several specimens 

 of this bird are recorded from the East Coast, it was rarely met 

 with in this district, and that in Gray's " Birds of the West of 

 Scotland" only one specimen is recorded as having been got on 

 the banks of the Clyde, opposite Bowling, in 1853. 



The Chairman, in illustration of his remarks at last meeting of 



