NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. Ill 



Head is simply an account of a personal visit to it last summer, 

 and of an endeavour to collect the materials concerning the locality 

 into accessible form. Owing to the rarity of the earlier volumes of 

 the Berwickshire Club's Proceedings, my effort may not prove un- 

 acceptable, while, at the same time, it will serve as a continuation 

 of a series of similar papers upon other rock-bird haunts in Scotland, 

 which I have personally visited. A comparison of the remarks of 

 naturalists — such as Selby in 1833, and Hepburn in 1850 — with 

 those of the present time, is always worth making, as by so doing 

 indications of the changes in the bird-population of the localities 

 treated of are at once observable. 



The following is a list of the papers relating to St. Abb's Head 

 and the vicinity which have hitherto appeared, so far as I have 

 been able to ascertain. To Mr. James Hardy, of Old Cambus, I 

 wish — not for the first time, nor, I hope, for the last — to give my 

 thankful acknowledgments for much assistance in the preparation 

 of this portion of my paper. 



1832— Dr. Johnston's address to the Club, Sept. 19th, 1832, 

 [Proe. Per to. Nat. Field Club, vol. x., pp. 5, 6,] gives a general 

 account of St. Abb's Head and its winged inhabitants, and a 

 confirmatory notice of the Chough from the Eev. A. Baird's obser- 

 vations [p. 6]. 



. — Record of another visit [op. c?'t., pp. 16, 17,] notices plants 



and land mollusca. 



. — Notice of the birds observed in the neighbourhood of St. 



Abb's Head on July 18th, 1832. By Mr. P. J. Selby, F.R.S.E., 

 F.L.S., &c. [op. tit., vol. i., pp. 18-20]. 



1833. — Observations on the birds observed in the neighbourhood 

 of Coldbrandspath* in April, and there at St. Abb's Head in June, 

 1833. By Mr. P. J. Selby [op. tit, vol. i., pp. 20-22]. Common 

 Falcon seen, and its eyrie, Green Cormorant, &c. 



Report on the Ornithology of Berwickshire and district, within 

 the limits of the Beriv. Nat. Field CluR By Mr. P. J. Selby, of 

 Twizell House [op. tit., vol. i., pp. 250-262]. Lists of birds of 

 Berwickshire and Holy Island and Fame Islands are added. 



1850-56. — Notes on some of the mammalia and birds found at 

 St. Abb's Head. By Mr. A. Hepburn [op. tit., vol. iii., p. 70]. 

 Some new birds are mentioned here, and there is a notice of a 

 supposed Wild Cat becoming semi-domesticated. 



* The older name of Cockburnspath. 



