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Berwick, and under the leadership of Miss Janet Kemp 

 the party botanised along the shore to Tantallon Castle. 

 Among the less common plants found were Symphytum 

 peregrinum, Petasites fragrans, Marrubium vtdgare, Hyoscyamus 

 niger, Anchusa arvensis, Cheiranthus Cheiri, Conium maculatum, 

 Peucedanum sativum, and Poa Chaixii. 



On 11th June there was an evening excursion to Cramond, 

 under the leadership of Mr James Fraser. The party walked 

 from Barnton Station by Cramond Old Bridge to Cramond 

 village. Among the plants found were Valeriana pyrenaica, 

 Humulus lupulus, Geum rivale, G. intermedium, G. urbanum, 

 Origanum vulgare, Lamium maculatum, Symphytum officinale, 

 var. patens, and S. peregrinum in several places. 



The next excursion was a joint one with the Natural 

 History Society of Glasgow to Douglas, under the leadership 

 of Mr John Cairns. The party visited Douglas Castle and 

 gardens. A nesting-site of the common heron was visited. 

 The nests numbered over half a dozen, — fewer than in former 

 years. On one of the ponds a mallard and a tufted duck 

 were followed by broods of young ; and in front of the castle 

 a pheasant's nest was seen in a heather patch. Among other 

 birds seen or heard were the mistle-thrush, song thrush, 

 willow wren, wood wren, great tit, blue tit, pied wagtail, 

 grey wagtail, tree-pipit, meadow-pipit, greenfinch, jackdaw, 

 rook, sparrow-hawk, moorhen, common snipe, common sand- 

 piper, redshank, curlew, black-headed gull, herring gull, little 

 grebe, and spotted flycatcher. 



Among flies seen were : Tipulidae — Limnobia nebeculosa 

 Mg\, L. fiavipes F., L. tripunctata F., Dicranomyia modesta 

 Mg., D. moria F., Rhipidia maculata Mg., Empeda nubila 

 Schum., Goniomyia tenella Mg., Molophilus propinquus Egg., 

 M. bifilatus Verr., Phypholophus nodidosus Mcq., Erioptera 

 trivialis Mg., Limnophila lineolella Verr., L. nemoralis Mg., 

 Ula pilosa Schum., Amalopis immaculata Mg., Tipida 

 hortulana Mg., T. lateralis Mg., T. montium Egg. 



Syrphidae — Melanostoma mellinum L., M. scalare F., Platy- 

 chirus albimanus Mg., P. peltatus Mg., Eristalis rupium F., 

 Syrphus cinctellus Ztt. 



Leptidae — Leptis scolopacea L. 



Empedse — Empis stercorea L., E. bilineata Lw. 



