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Bare, 37. 



SS- Concealed by white hairs, forming a mass like cotton 

 wadding, 36. 



Hairs not long enough to conceal the galls, which remain dis- 

 tinct, and are about 2 mm. long ; June. A. amenti. (The 

 galls of A. pilosus cannot be distinguished from these by 

 means of Adler's description.) 



36. In small groups, cottony tufts of hairs, small ; June. A. 



{cirrhatus) callidoma. 

 Crowded in masses, 20 to 25 mm. in breadth ; June. A. 



\ramuli. 



37. Globular, pea-sized, succulent, green, with red or purplish 



streaks ;'May and June. Nntrotems baccarum. 



Spindle-shaped, 6 or 8 mm. long, pointed, green, with red 

 ridges ; June. Andricus se?ninationis. 



Oval, or oblong, obtuse, 3 or 4 mm. long, green, or dull red- 

 brown, keeled along the sides ; June. A. quadrilineatus. 



Oval, pointed, 1 or i 1 /^ mm. long, bare, or with a kw small 

 hairs at tip, green, becoming yellow ; June. A. {nudus) 



\_Malpighii. 



OCCUEBENCE OF THE EED-SHQULDEBED STAELLTC IN 

 EAMOCH, PEETHSHIEE. 



On the iothof this month (May, 18 t>), Donald Cameron, who is employed 

 on the property of Sir Robert Menzies, Bart., in watching a young plantation 

 on Loch Ericht side, observed a strange bird, which he first saw near his 

 bothy door, among the grass and heather ; and which he afterwards shot close 

 to the shore of the loch, where a small burn, which passes the bothy, enters the 

 loch about a mile from its north-west end. The shot used was, unfortunately, 

 so large that the bird was considerably damaged for preservation, the tail 

 feathers being much cut, and the bill injured. The head-keeper at Rannoch 

 Lodge writes to me that he believes he had seen the same bird, or one like it, 

 once or twice flying about the same place previously, but could not make out 

 what it was. vSir Robert Menzies, who happened to be up at the loch a day 

 or two afterwards, sent me the bird in the flesh, and it turned out to be a 

 female of the Red -shouldered starling of North- America ( Agenrus phizniceus ) 

 No male bird was seen to accompany it. Knowing the bird in that country, 

 I was at once enabled to identify it. A remarkable character in this species is 

 the great difference in size and colour in the sexes. The female is a very 



