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received as British since the occurrence of two specimens in the 

 Shetland Islands some years ago. Mr Gray further stated that the 

 greatest care had been taken to ascertain that the specimen was 

 in reality a wild bird, both by himself and his friend Mr James 

 Stirrat, banker, Dairy, to whom he expressed his obligations for 

 the fullest information regarding its occurrence and capture. 



II. A specimen of the Wryneck (Yunx torquilla), shot near 

 Garnkirk, in the first week of October. Very few examples of 

 this bird have occurred in the western counties, the only one 

 recorded for many years being that mentioned by the late Mr 

 Yarrell in his " British Birds," as having been shot near Hamilton 

 in 1835. Of late years, however, it has been found breeding in 

 the district of Nether Lochaber, Inverness-shire, by the Rev. 

 Alex. Stewart, Ballachulish. 



III. A Little Auk {Merguliis alle), shot at Ai-dentinny on the 

 IGth of the present month. Specimens have occurred from time 

 to time, chiefly in inland situations, at some distance from the 

 sea; and the presence of the Little Auk seems more or less 

 associated with heavy gales and tempestuous weather, by which 

 the bird is sometimes blown many miles into the country. For 

 the two last-mentioned birds Mr Gray exjDressed himself indebted 

 to Mr ]\Iartin, taxidermist, Buchanan Street. 



Mr John Kirsop exhibited a collection of birds from Java, 

 including about forty species, the property of ]\Irs Peter Hall, 

 of Campbelton. Mr George Martin, jun,, exhibited three 

 specimens of the tailless Trout from Islay; also a female Pheasant 

 in the plumage of the male, recently shot in the same island. A 

 conversation ensued among the members regarding the Trout, 

 without, however, eliciting any definite theory to account for the 

 absence of the caudal rays. From what Mr Martin stated, it 

 appears that the particular breed has been known for many years, 

 though confined to a single loch in the island. 



Mr John Young, F.G.S, exhibited a series of trilobites of Caradoc 

 age from the Silurian strata of the Girvan valley. These were 

 from the collection of ]\Irs Robert Gray, and comprised specimens 

 of Illaenus hoicmanni, I. fhomsoni, I. harriensis, Cyhele verrucosa, Staic- 

 rocephahis unkus, Proteus latifrons, Cheiruriis davifrons, Zethus nigosus, 

 Odontopleura ovata ("?), and specimens of a large Trinucleus, which, 

 so far as yet examined, does not correspond with any of the 

 described species. Mr Young, in pointing out the characters of 



