64 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



Assuming that the eggs were correctly identified, this is a 

 remarkable date. 



Redshaxk (Totanus caJidris). — On Meariis Moors this species 

 does not begin to nest till about the 15th of April. 



Curlew (^Numenius arquata). — The 16th of April mavks the 

 beginning of the Curlew's nesting season. I once saw a clutch 

 of five eggs on Mearns Moors, and the eggs were apparently all 

 laid by the same bird. 



I have indicated the date on which each species commences to 

 nest, but these dates refer to the earliest nests, and laying may 

 not be general for some days later. 



Some notes on the distribution of the Clyde 

 Cpangfonidae. 



By Ale.yander Patience. 



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^* [Read 20th April, 1906.] 



Our knowledge regarding the distribution of some of the rarer 

 species belonging to the family Crangonidae within the Clyde 

 sea-area has been somewhat limited, the records of their occur- 

 rence being confined to one or two localities only. 



Some time ago, Dr. Thomas Scott, F.L.S., of H.M. Fishery 

 Board, Aberdeen, published an interesting and valuable contribu- 

 tion on the subject of the Crmufonidae, bringing together for 

 the first time the various records of the Scottish species.* No 

 additional records had, however, been added for the Clyde species 

 since his list of the Crustacea was published for the British 

 Association meeting in Glasgow in 1901. f 



Until the advent in that year, of the scientifically equipped 

 yacht, " Mermaid," belonging to the Millport Marine Biological 



* "Some Notes on the Scottish Crangonidae," Ann. of Scot. Nat. Hist., 

 Oct., 1902, pp. 225-231. 

 t Handbook on the Natural History of Glas., &c., 1901, p. 330. 



