CONTENTS. 



PAGE. 



The Craig of Ailsa. By George Donaldson, Esq 119 



The Arrival, Nestling, Habits, and Departure of the Sea-fowl at the 



Craig of Ailsa. Idem 125 



A List of the Rayed Echinodermata of Banffshire. By Mu. T. Edward. 127 



Notes on British Swallows. By a Sea-side Naturalist 132 



Injurious Insects. — The Earwig. By J. McTntosh, Esq 136 



Miscellaneous Notices. — Do Hawks drink. The Wryneck. Early 

 Nesting of the Wood Pigeon. On licucophasia Sinapis and Vanessa 



Hampstediensis 138 



Reviews. — Class Book of Botany: being an introduction to the study 

 of the Vegetable Kingdom. By J. H. Balfour, M. D., F. R. S. E., 

 etc. With upwards of Eighteen Hundred Illustrations. Part II. — 

 Physiological Botany. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black. 



1854. p. p. 755. 'On the British Tritons. By John Higginbottom, 



F. R. S. From the ^^ Annals and Magazine of Natural History," for 



December, 1853 140 



Proceedings of Societies. — Dorset County Museum and Library 142 



The Retrospect, — The Starling 142 



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