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ECHINID^. CIDARITES. 



Genus Echinus. 



E. SPHiERA. — Common Egg Urchin. Plentiful in Newton Bay on the 

 rocks called the Little Fills. 



E. MiLiARis. — Purple-tipped Egg Urchin. Rare with the preced- 

 ing. 



CLYPEASTERI^. 



Genus Echinocyamus. 



E. PUSiLLUS Green Pea Urchin, Found occasionally in shell-sand 



denuded of its spines. 



SPATANGACE^. 



Genu^ Spatangus. 



S. PURPUREUS Purple Heart Urchin. Two specimens of this 



pretty but uncommon species have occurred to me this summer. 

 Genus. Amphidotus. 

 A. CORDATUS. — Common Heart Urchin, Very plentiful at low-water 

 mark in Newton Bay. 



On Bowling as an extinct Berwickshire Game. By James Hardy. 



' OX|x«y V if, \fffivi KvXivitf^ou it ifjLiXov. 



HoM. II. X. 147. 



And roll'd it like a mortar through the ranks. 



COWPKB. 



In the year 1841, a considerable number of stone-balls were, in the 

 course of tillage, met with scattered over a field, on the farm of Penman- 

 shiel, in the parish of Cockburnspath. The whole came into my posses- 

 sion, and as they appear to be connected with an antiquated Berwick- 

 shire game, and with a state of manners somewhat different from the 

 present, I felt justified in making inquiries as to their nature. And 

 though this does not appear of the most exalted character, yet as a 

 single feature in the somewhat shadowy and indistinct notion we have of 

 the former customs of the county, it may not be altogether destitute of 

 interest. The balls are from the size of a large marble to that of a 

 cricket-ball : some are as shapely as if turned in a lathe ; others are of 

 very indifferent symmetry, and yet bear the marks of the rude instru- 



