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Society, captured near Dunbar, where, it was stated at the time, 

 it seemed to have established itself, though not previously recog- 

 nised as a Scottish species. 



Mr Chapman stated that he had in his possession at Buchanan 

 Street a full-gro^vn living larva of the Emperor Moth (Ceratocampa 

 imperialis, Fab.), a native of the Middle and Southern States of 

 North America. 



PAPER READ. 



Journal of a Tour through the Outer Hebrides in 1870, 

 By Captain H. W. Feilden, Corresponding Member. 



This tour was made in company with Mr Harvie Brown, and 

 the present communication takes up the narrative when the latter 

 gentleman left for the South. Captain Feilden obtained in the 

 Long Island the eggs of the Red-necked Phalarope, Dunlin, 

 Black-throated Diver, Ring Plover, etc. He mentions that there 

 is a belief throughout the Long Island, and in parts of Suther- 

 landshire, that if the eggs of the Hooded Crow are boiled and 

 returned to the nest, the hen will sit on them till she dies of 

 exhaustion. Visiting the island on which the Black-throated 

 Diver nests, "we were surprised to find the nest composed of 

 grass, and raised considerably, not unlike that of the Common 

 Gull. We particularly asked our guide if he was sure about this 

 being the nest, as we always supposed the Diver made no nest ; 

 but he corroborated his statement by pointing to the otter-like 

 tracks from the nest to the water." 



On the " Machirs," near Drumore, Captain Feilden saw shell 

 mounds from which the winds had removed the lighter sand, 

 leaving great masses of periwinkles, cockle-shells, and fragments 

 of teeth and bones. From a large mound near Grogary a quantity 

 of bones was obtained. "Among the remains we found many 

 fragments of bone pins, one very perfect one made of deer's horn. 

 We packed a considerable number of these bones for the examina- 

 tion of Professor Newton, being in hopes that some relic of the 

 Great Auk [Alca impennis), however minute, might turn up 

 among the remains of deer, swine, and seal, which form the 

 largest part of the remains. In pre-historic times, when this 

 mound was the home of man, it had evidently been surrounded 

 with water, which the rise of the coast line has since drained off. 

 This very interesting mound will in a few years blow away entirely, 



