INDEX. 



425 



Shales, bituminous, of Linlithgow- 

 shire and Edinburgh, 16. 



Shells, list of land and. fresh water, 

 found in Caithness, 161. 



Shetland, occurrence of death's head 

 moth in, by Adam "White, 345. 



Skirving (E. Scott), on appearance and 

 migration of some of the birds of 

 East Lothian, 362. 



Skull of ancient Peruvian, remarks 

 on, 75. 



Smith (Adam), notes on the gold-fields 

 of Ballarat, Australia, 409. 



Smith (John Alex.), M.D., ornitholo- 

 gical notes, Perm's apivorus (honey 

 buzzard), Tetrao urogallus (caper- 

 cailzie), female in male plumage, 25. j 



notes on a y oun g otter, ' '•Jyiuig,' ' 



from Old Calabar, 34. 



Notice of two specimens of 



Chameleo cristatus (crested chame- 

 leon), from Old Calabar, 228. 



note on bill and legs of young 



Fregilus graculus (chough), 37. 



fireball or supposed, aerolite 



near Auchterarder, Perthshire, 64. 



remarks on a bronze imple- 

 ment, remains of an ox and dog, 

 found in a gravel bed at Kinleith. 

 Mid-Lothian, 98. 



two specimens of Egyptian 



geese (Anser Egyptiacus), 129. 



on the recent occurrence of 



some of our rarer birds, 176, 201, 

 332. 



exhibition of the heads of the 



Cervus elaphus (red deer), showing 

 varieties in their antlers, with re- 

 marks, 208. 



on a specimen of Rhombus 



hirtus (Muller's top-knot), from Firth 

 of Forth, 213. 



note of Atelecyclus heterodon 



(the circular crab) from Firth of 

 Forth. 214. 



notice of a species of pipe 



fish, genus doryichthys, Old Calabar, 

 227. 



Mergus albellus exhibited by, 



237. 



notice of the " Etuet" a 



species of Tetraodon, from Old Cala- 

 bar, 268. 



notice of a new genus of 



ganoid fish allied to Polypterus, from 

 Old Calabar, 273. 



notice of double or vertical 



hermaphrodism in the common cod- 

 fish (Morrhua vulgaris) taken in Firth 

 of Forth, 300. 



Smith (John Alex.), M.D., notice of 

 various specimens of the deformed 

 variety of Morrhua vulgaris (com- 

 mon cod-fish), the " Lord Fish' ! of 

 Yarrell, taken in Firth of Forth, 302. 



notes of recent contributions 



to the zoology of Old Calabar, 

 Galago Demidoffii, Chameleo fas- 

 ciatus (?), various insects, &c, 303. 



exhibits Erpefoichthys (now 



Calamoichthys) Calabaricus, from Old 

 Calabar, 331. 



exhibits specimens of weaver 



birds' pensile nests, &c, from Old 

 Calabar, 345. 



four specimens of the Lanius 



excubitor (great grey shrike), 332; 

 shot near Eoslin, 346 ; shot near 

 Motherwell, 355. 



on the discovery, in 1863, by 



Eev. Alex. Eobb, of insect feeding 

 on the esere, the ordeal or poison 

 bean of Old Calabar, 347- 



on the occurrence of death's 



head moth in Eoxburghshire, Perth- 

 shire, and Eoss-shire, 353. 



exhibits specimen of Cyelop- 



terus lumpus (the lump-sucker), 355. 



notes of the insects which 



feed on the " esere," or ordeal bean 

 of Old Calabar, 356. 



on colours displayed by a 



species of chameleon of genus 

 Lophosaura, 390. 



notes on Aqiiila chrysaetos. 



Pastor roseus, 392. 



remarks on pearls, 394. 



Smith (E.), collected specimen of Ler- 

 neopoda elongata in Greenland, 331. 



Smyth (Professor Piazzi), specimens 

 of Coleoptera collected in Egypt by. 

 exhibited, 335. 



Stevenson (William), deductions from 

 the hypothesis of the internal 

 fluidity of the earth, 132. 



on the origin of granite, 165. 



notes of plants from Upper 



Old Red Sandstone, Dunse, 367. 



spiral forms, notes on, by, 366. 



Stilbum lyncea, 310. 



Stomobrachium octocostatum, Forbes. 

 1862-3, 42. 



Stylonurus, notes on genus, 230. 



Synapta, on spines and plates of, by 

 Charles W. Peach, 364. 

 Buskei, 365. 

 digitata, 364. 



Gallieni vel Sarniensis, 365. 

 inhcerens, 365. 

 Thomsonii, 365. 



