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Saddle Scale Oyster, Anomia ephippium, (also A. electrica, squa- 

 mula, cepa, punctata, cylindracea, fornicata, tubularis, fyc. of 

 authors). Very common. The variety squamula is very abundant in 

 the interior of deserted shells ; the variety coronata of Bean, with 

 the edge serrated on one side, has been also met with by Mr. 

 Macdonald. 



Prickly Scale Oyster, Anomia aculeata, (also A. striatula, Flem. 

 and Mac.) Common. 



Patella-like Anomia, Anomia patelliformis, (A. undulata, Flem. 

 and Mac.) Stotfield, Robert McAndrew, Esq. Mr. Macdonald ob- 

 served it among shells collected by Mr. Thomas Edwards, at Banff, 

 and obtained a valve which one of his pupils, Master C. H. Grant, 

 had picked up in a Lossiemouth fishing-boat, March, 1854. 



Striated Anomia, Anomia striata. Found among shells, sent from 

 Buckie, by Mr. Macdonald, May, 1853. 



Brachiopoda. 



Anomalous or Shapeless Crania, Crania anomala {Criopus ano~ 

 mains, Flem.) A few years ago Mr. Martin found a parcel of " this 

 curious and interesting bivalve," on a stone brought in from deep 

 water by the fishermen at Lossiemouth. 



Pteropoda. 



Fleming's Spiralis, Spiralis Flemingii (Fusus retroversus, Flem.) 

 A single specimen of this minute shell, since unfortunately crushed, 

 was discovered by Mr. Macdonald, among shell-sand, gathered on the 

 shore at Burghead, in 1853. 



George Gordon. 



Birnie, by Elgin, April, 1854. 



(To be continued). 



Proceedings of Natural- History Collectors in Foreign Countries. 



Mr. H. W. Bates.*— " Santarem, August 18th, 1853.— By this 

 time I hoped to have sent you a good collection from a new locality, 

 but I have not yet been able to get a passage to Altar do Chao ; it is 

 a small village, with only a few idle Indians and a priest (a very good 



* Communicated by Mr. S. Stevens. 



