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was obtained on Loch Speline, Mull, by Rev. F. W. Champneys, 

 and lent by him for exhibition to the Society. Mr. Angus- 

 described the plumage of the bird, which he stated was about 

 the size of the common pigeon, having the head and nape dark, 

 and a darker band or collar round the neck where it joins the 

 white plumage of the body. 



Little Gull, Larus inhriitus. — The specimen exhibited was 

 shot by Mr. John Macdonald at North Uist on 1st November 

 last. 



Golden Eagle, Aquila chrysaetos.—Hhis bird, a male in the 

 dark brown plumage of the second year with the tail white at 

 the base, was found dead, floating lightly on the surface of the 

 water, between Lamlash and Fairlie, in July last. It was with- 

 out wound of any kind, and had the stomach empty. The 

 finder has since presented it to the Paisley Museum. 



A pied immature male Grouse, Lagopus scofic us.— With refer- 

 ence to this specimen, Mr. Angus remarked that while most of 

 the albinos previously examined by him had the feathers dull 

 and weak— so weak that the tail and wings were generally worn 

 at the extremities— and some were the victims of old wounds 

 that had healed up, the present example was robust and healthy, 

 with remarkably full and brilliant phunage. 



Mr. Thomas King read a Report for 1883 on Experiments with 

 Chilian Seed-Potatoes. * 



29th January, 18S4. 



Mr. Peter Cameron, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. William Craibe Angus exhibited a specimen of the Green 

 Woodpecker, Picus virldis, on which he made the following 

 remarks :— 



In Scotland the Green Woodpecker is of rare occurrence. 

 Pennant, Don, Dr. Fleming, and others include it in their lists ;. 

 and Yarrell, without quoting any authority, states that it is 

 distributed "over a portion, if not all, the wooded districts of 

 Scotland." This statement has been contradicted by no less an 

 authority than Macgillivray, whose finding has been accepted by 

 subsequent observers. 



The latest known occurrences of the species in Scotland were 

 in Aberdeenshire, where one was shot by Mr. William Davidson, 

 gamekeeper, Seaton House, and presented to Dr. Fleming; and 

 in 1868 the late Mr. William Hunter of Tillery, a pupil of 

 Professor Macgillivray, and an observer not likely to have mis- 

 taken the species, saw a single bird in the woods near Tillery 

 House. 



* Transactions, i. 21. 



