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Bruce, Esq. of Bowling, the subject being "Notes and Observations on the 

 History of Dalnottar." At the December meeting a paper is promised by the 

 Rev. J. Harvey, M.A., F.C., Duntocher, upon certain Cup and Ring marks 

 which he has discovered near Edinbarnet. At the January meeting Mr, John 

 M'Intosh, Forester to Lord Blantyre, has agreed to give some notes of the 

 trees of the district. The Society already numbers twenty members, some of 

 whom are good naturalists and archaeologists. Mr. T). Andrew of Gavinbura 

 School is Secretary, and a number of local gentlemen have agreed to become 

 Honorary Presidents. 



SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS. 



ZOOLOGIST, 1S87 (M ay). Reported. Occurrence of Emberiza 

 inelanocephala in Scotland, by H. A. Macpherson. A male in 

 winter plumage, exhibited at the Crystal Palace Bird Show on February 17th, 

 " was caught near Dunfermline, on or about the 5th November last, while fly- 

 ing in company with some Snow Buntings." The Ptarmigan in South- 

 west Scotland, by H. A. Macpherson, mentions two specimens in summer 

 plumage and one in winter plumage, all now in Carlisle Museum, as having 

 been presented by Mr. J. D. Murray of Murraythwaite, Dumfries, and as thus 

 presumably local birds. 



(June.) Nesting of the Stock-Dove in East Lothian, by G. 

 Pow, records a pair as breeding in rabbit burrows on Traprain Law. 



(September). Report of the Grouse Disease, by the well-known 

 pathologist, Dr. E. Klein. The livers were found to contain "large numbers 

 of corpuscles which are foreign to the liver tissue, and which in all respects 

 correspond to some form of Low Fungi, most probably to Plasmodia." No 

 Bacteria could be found. On the Nesting of the Tufted Duck in 

 Kirkcudbrightshire, by Robert Service. Pied Puffin and Razor- 

 bill at St. Kilda, by H. A. Macpherson. 



(October). On the Bank Vole, Arvicola glareolus (Schreber), by 

 J. E. Harting, figures the species, and notes Scotch localities. The Night- 

 ingale in Scotland gives an account (from the Scotsman of 19th Septem- 

 ber) of an unsuccessful attempt, in 1795, by Lord Buchan, to naturalise this 

 songster among us. 



(November). On the present condition of the existing herds 

 of British Wild White Cattle, being the Report read before the 

 British Association at Manchester. Breeding of the Tufted Duck in 

 Aberdeenshire (Loch of Skene), by William Borrer. Knot on the 

 West Coast of Scotland, by Arthur H. Macpherson, notes the occurrence 

 of several hundreds on the shores of Loch Gilp ever since the middle of Sept. 



