Donations to Berwickshire Naturalists' Club. 525 



Goatsucker, (Caprimulgus Europceus). — One was killed at 

 Wolfelee, in October last. 



"William Hope told me that an American Bittern (Botaurus 

 lentiginosus), had been shot near Drumlanrig Castle on the 25th 

 March, 1873 ; also a Common Buzzard {Buteo vulgaris), male, in 

 October, 1873, very remarkable for its dark plumage; also a 

 Fork- tailed Petrel (Thalassidroma Zeachii), was picked up dead 

 on the Boxburgh railway bridge, in October, 1873 ; all of which 

 he preserved. 



Skua Gull, (Lestris cataractes). — One was shot in Oxnam 

 Water in September, 1875, by W. Barrie, farmer at Harden 

 Mains. It had pounced upon a duck in the pond, and was tearing 

 it to pieces, when Barrie got his gun and shot it. I saw it when 

 being preserved by Aaron Forrest, Gunsmith, Jedburgh. [This 

 is the same bird that Mr Gray mentions, but there is an error in 

 his notice, as to date.] 



Donations to the Berwickshire Naturalists' Club, from 

 Scientific Societies, &c, 1875. 



Basel, Switzerland. Ueber das Auftreten der Wander- 

 heuschreke am Ufer des Bielersee's, von Albert Muller in Basel. 

 — Luzern, 1876. 8vo. The Author. 



Bath. Proceedings of the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian 

 Field Club, Vol. iii., No. 2. 1875. 8vo. The Club. 



Belfast. Annual Eeport and Proceedings of the Belfast Natur- 

 alists' Field Club. 1873-4. Series ii. Vol. i., Part 1. 1875. 

 8vo. The Club. 



Boston, U.S.A. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural 

 History, 1870. Vol. xiii., pp. 369-435 and title ; 1870, Vol. 

 xiii., pp. 1-224. Boston, 1871. ^8vo. The Society. 



Ditto, Vol. xvi., Parts iii. and iv. 1874. 8vo. Ibid. 



Ditto, Vol. xvii., Parts i. and ii.. 1874-5. 8vo. Ibid. 



Jeffries Wynian : Memorial Meeting of the Boston 



Society of Natural History, Oct. 7th, 1874, 1874. 8vo. Ibid. 



Memoirs of the Boston Society of Natural History, 



Vol. ii., Part iii., No. iii. Recent Changes of Level on the Coast 

 of Maine ; with reference to their origin and relation to other 

 similar changes. By N. S. Shaler. 1874. 4to. Ibid. 



Ditto, Vol. ii., Part iii., No. iv. The Species of the 



Lepidopterous Genus Pamphila. By Samuel H. Scudder. 

 1874. 4to. Ibid. 



