SQ2 The Isle of Saints. 



wnder or signet at Edgr the xxii day of nouember and of or 

 Kinge the sextene yeir, 1582. 



Ex deliberatione Dominorum consilii. 



Bird Life in the South of Scotland. By Mr J. W. Payne, 

 Annan. 



[Mr Payne submitted a paper on the birds he had met with 

 mainly within a ten-mile radius of Kirkcudbright. His list, while 

 not comprehensive, was enlivened by many personal observations 

 of an interesting nature.] 



21st April, 1011. 



Chairman — Mr R. C. Reid of Mouswald Place. 



Communion Tokens, with Descriptive Catalogue of those 

 OF Dumfriesshire. By the Rev. H. A. Whitelaw, 

 Dumfries. 



[This contribution will be found pp. 36-126.] 



The Isle of Saints. Lantern Lecture by W. A. 

 Mackinnell, Dumfries. 



Rich as are the Western Islands in relics of the Keltic 

 Church, there are few of these remains which we can definitely 

 place earlier than the eleventh or twelfth century ; when the early 

 Avooden structures gave place to more substantial buildings of 

 stone and mortar. Only in those places where circumstances 

 were unfavourable to the procuring of wood, and stones for 

 drystone walling were available in plenty, do we come upon the^ 

 few faint traces which are left to us of the early days of the 

 Church. To those conditions being present, and to its peculiarly 

 isolated position, we owe the preservation, on one lonely little 

 island of the west, of a few rude memorials which link us to the 

 days of Columba himself. 



Eileach-na-Naombh, the "Isle of Saints," or according to 

 some authorities, the " Training Place of the Saints," is the most 

 southerly island of the group called " Isles of the Sea," lying off 



