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The Natural- History Society of Glasgow is one not much 

 known to southron ornithologists, nevertheless its members 

 display a laudable amount of activity in the good cause, as 

 the two parts of its " Proceedings '' * already published bear 

 witness. Though founded in 1851, it was well advanced "in 

 its teens " before an account of its doings was given to the 

 world ; and when at last this was effected, it was thought 

 expedient to begin with the session of 1859-60. This ar- 

 rangement, we are told, excludes only one " important sub- 

 ject " — the occurrence of the North-American Hegulus calen- 

 dula, an example of which, said to have been shot on the shores 

 of Loch Lomond, was laid before the Society in April 1858, a 

 fact already recorded by Mr. Gould (P. Z. S. 1858, p. 390) and 

 Dr. Bree (B. Eur. ii. p. 109). Probably the future of a Society 

 will be none the less prosperous and productive for feeling its 

 way slowly and cautiously at first ; we trust that it is now be- 

 come firmly rooted ; and certainly its present ejEForts fully de- 

 serve encom'agement. The most important article contained 

 in these two parts is, indubitably, that on the birds of Ayrshire 

 and Wigtownshire, a separately printed copy of which (with 

 some additions) we noticed in our last number {antea, p. 125); 

 but a great many other communications well deserve the notice 

 of British ornithologists. We have not space to enumerate 

 them here ; but there is less reason why we should ; for we 

 doubt not they will be all duly incorporated in the work on the 

 Birds of the West of Scotland, which we shortly expect from 

 the Society's indefatigable secretary, Mr. Robert Gray. We 

 may, however, mention two notices, both due to Mr. W. C. An- 

 gus, of Aberdeen — one (p. 207) recording the occun-ence in that 

 shire of Buarremon schistaceus (Boissonneau), which must, we 

 think, have escaped from confinement, and the other (pp. 209- 

 211, pi. iii.) oi Zonotrichia albicollis (Gmel.). This last, by Mr. 

 Angus's courtesy, we have lately had the opportunity of exhi- 

 biting at a meeting of the Zoological Society of London, and it 

 may very possibly have crossed the Atlantic on its own account. 



* ' Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Glasgow/ vol. i. 

 part i. 1868, pp. 228, vol. i. part ii. 1869, pp. 229-384. 



