’ “Ti CLOCHMABON.”’ 35 
fined to Cymric districts, but are found also at Mull and Arran, 
at Callernish near Stornoway, and at Stennis in Orkney. As to 
their period we know nothing, but one peculiarity is that those 
I have examined have all been of granitic stone. And I may 
mention as a suggestive fact that in examining an interesting 
private collection of antiquities at Kirkwall my attention was 
directed to a piece of granite taken from the hole left by the fall 
of one of the Stones of Stennis. This piece of granite bore 
clearly the marks of polishing as if it had been used as a 
polishing stone upon the upright stones. 
GOLD MINEs AND GoLp Mininc. By Professor J. W. GREcoryY, 
isc.,. E.Ross| ERS H., - BGS.) MOLM.M., ‘ete:, 
Glasgow University. 
In this lecture, which was illustrated by a number of lantern 
slides, Professor Gregory gave a full description of the geology, 
etc., of gold-bearing strata in Australia, etc., together with the 
characteristics of the same; how the mines were operated; and 
the processes employed. 
20th December, 190%. 
Chairman—The PRESIDENT. 
THE Woopcock. By Mr Huey Stevart-GLapsTonE, M.A., 
eas. te: 
The following paper being a précis of the notes on woodcock 
I have from time 'to time made in my notebooks, I should 
perhaps first draw your attention to a frequent error as regards 
the distinguishing Latin name this bird bears. Linus spells 
Rusticola r-u-s-t-i-c-o-l-a; deriving this cognomen from “ Rus ”’ 
and “incola,’’ that is an inhabitant of the country. Mr H. T. 
Wharton, in the Ibis, 1879, p. 453, writes of this mistake, and 
modern authorities agree in writing R-u-s-t-i-c-u-l-a. The word 
“tusticula ’’ by Pliny is translated “a little heathcock:’’ and in 
Cicero “rusticulus’’ means “a little country-man.’’ As such 
—a little fellow-countryman of Dumfriesshire—I oe that 
we should consider the woodcock to-night. 
