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were both shot. Mr JafFray had kindly procured the male for 

 Mr Gray, and the female, a much smaller bird, and less 

 bright in colour, had found its way into the hands of a Dunbar 

 bird-stufFer. Previous occurrences of this rare goose may be 

 briefly stated. In 1832 numerous specimens were obtained in 

 the south of Scotland, and several flocks having been seen on the 

 wing during that year, in districts ranging from the Tweed to the 

 Forth, we are led to conclude that, if these flocks as some have 

 conjectured, were escaped birds, the weather, which was stormy, 

 must have induced unusual restlessness. All the specimens Mr 

 Gray had seen killed in Scotland, were obtained in winter 

 time, and chiefly in rough weather, A considerable number 

 occurred in East Lothian. In November, 1832, one was killed 

 out of a flock of nineteen; another out of a dozen in 1846; and 

 the Earl of Haddington shot a fine male in the winter of 1863. 

 Five were observed in Montrose Basin in Forfarshire in 1865, 

 and two years later a similar flock appeared there. In January, 

 1867, one was shot on the Forth, and is now in the collection of 

 Dr Dewar. In the Western Counties, the Egyptian Goose has 

 occurred several times. One or two were observed on Loch 

 Lomond in 1832, and three were shot near Campsie in Stirling- 

 shire, in the same year; also three out of a flock of five on Loch 

 Lomond in 1861, one of which was exhibited at a meeting of this 

 Society by Dr Dewar, in January, 1867. Other two were killed 

 from a small flock which had been observed on the same loch 

 some time previously. So far as Mr Gray knew, the two speci- 

 mens exhibited this evening made up a total of fourteen, killed 

 north of the Tweed. The Egyptian Goose has been unhesitatingly 

 admitted into the British fauna by all ornithological writers for 

 the last forty years, and Mr Harting, in his recently published 

 " Hand-book of British Birds," admits it as a regular winter 

 visitant. A flock of eighty occurred many years ago in Hamp- 

 shire. 



Mr John Young, F.G.S., exhibited a living specimen of the 

 King Crab {Limulus polyjyhemtis), from the American coast, which 

 had been presented to the Hunterian Museum by Mr James 

 Paton, Laurence Place, and made a few remarks, pointing out its 

 aflinity to certain species of extinct crustaceans found in the 

 coal measures. 



