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Puff-adder from Rhodesia. These he stated to be viperine 

 snakes, having- the head very distinct from the neck and 

 covered with imbricated scales. The nostrils are directed 

 upwards, or upwards and outwards, while the body is thick, 

 and the tail very short. These snakes are remarkable for 

 possessing enlarged horn-like scales between the supra-nasals. 

 B. gdbonica has a single enlarged scale above the supra-nasal, 

 in contact with its fellow, while B. nasicornis has two or three, 

 which are usually separated by small scales. 



Mr. Henry M'Culloch showed a specimen of the Glossy Ibis, 

 Plegadis falcinellus (L.) shot near Kilmarnock, this being the 

 first record of the occurrence of the bird in that neighbour- 

 hood. 



Dr. Thomas F. Gilmour sent for exhibition some specimens 

 of Water Betony (Scrophularia aqvatica, L.) found growing 

 plentifully on the banks of the Cornabus Burn, Islay, and he 

 communicated some notes on the probable causes which had led 

 to its sudden appearance in that locality (see page 219). 



26th November, 1907. 



Mr. D. A. Boyd, President, in the chair. 



Messrs. W. L. Chadwick, 2 Beechwood Terrace, Albert Road, 

 Langside, and G. C. Cossar, M.A.(Oxon.), East Craigs, 

 Corstorphine, were elected ordinary members. 



By favour of Mr. G. Graham, Girvan, Mr. John Robertson 

 exhibited a nest and egg of the Pied Flycatcher (Muscicapa 

 atricnpiUa, L.), from Glendoune, Girvan, with photographs 

 of the bird sitting on the nest. He described the circum- 

 stances under which the nest had been found, and stated that 

 this species has only recently been added to the list of birds 

 which breed in the Clyde Area, three instances of nests observed 

 at Glendoune since 1901 by Mr. Graham and others being the 

 only records known. 



Mr. Alexander Ross exhibited specimens of Eristalis sepul- 

 chralis, L., one of the Syrphida?, captured in the Ard, Port 

 Ellen, Islay, on 1st August last. The insects were flying 

 abundantly about a quantity of decaying sea-weed which had 

 evidently been collected for purposes of kelp-making and left 



