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youngj of any falcon, goshawk, or laner, or lanaret out of the nest or nests 

 of any falcon, goshawk, or laner, within any of the king's honours, castle 

 manors, lands, tenements, woods, or other grounds." Act 32 Henry VIII ' 

 c. 11, made it felony punishable with death for any persons unlawfully or 

 wrongfully to take or cause to be taken any eggs of any falcon, goshawk 

 or laner, or the birds of any falcon, goshawk, or laner out or from an^ 

 nest of any falcon, goshawk, or laner within any woods, ground, or place 

 ot any other person or persons within the realm 



YelMo wagtail.~1\,\^ bird, I am informed by my friend Mr William 

 J^umley, Broomhall Gardens, was very common at Cramond about thirty 

 years ago. ' 



MAMMALiA.-5a^..-The pipistrelle is, of course, the common bat of the 

 district. I have only seen one long-eared bat, and that was many years ago, 

 in Cramond School, when a class-mate produced one from his pocket 



Insectivora are all common here. 



Carnivora—With the exception of the otter, all those mentioned are 

 fairly common. The badger has already been described by another 

 member of our Society. The stoat, although by no means rare, cannot be 

 said to be common. 



Rodentia are all common. 



Otter.— As far as I know, not seen here for about fifteen years 



Red-deer.-ln 1888-89 a red-deer frequented this district for some weeks 

 1 saw It on several occasions in the early morning standing in the Firth 

 of Forth a few yards from the shore munching sea-weed. It had eventu- 

 ally to be shot owing to the damage it wrought among the cottage-gardens 

 Ihis animal was supposed to be an "escape" from Hopetoun. 



Foreign Birds.— A cockatoo flew about Dalmeny Woods 

 during the winter of 1894. Several times parrots, paroquets 

 and cockatoos have been captured. Of course these were all 

 " escapes." 



The botany, geology, &c:, I leave for some other member to 

 describe. 



[The above paper was illustrated by upwards of fifty slides 

 of antiquities, scenery, birds' nests, &c., from photographs 

 by Mr Bruce Campbell. Three photographs of birds" nests 

 are here reproduced— viz., Plate XII., Nest of the Oyster- 

 catcher; Plate XIII., Nest of the Lapwing; and Plate XIV 

 Nest of the Woodcock.] 



A communication was read at this meeting from Mr Allan 

 A. Pinkerton, stating that, with seven other members of the 



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