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The Scottish Naturalist. 



Bud and its Attributes " (1856) : u Man's Place and Bread Unique 

 in Nature, or Man's Pedigree Human, not Simiaa " (1^65); "On 

 the Fcetus in Utero as inoculating the Maternal with the peculiari- 

 ties of the Paternal Organism" (1886). 



He also wrote upon Materia Mtd'ca; and frequently contri- 

 buted to the medical journal articles upon medical cases, and 

 methods of treatment, as well as upon the medical curriculum. 



His personal qualities were such as to win him the universal 

 respect and esteem of his students and colleagues, and, indeed, of 

 all with whom he was associated. 



Reed Bunting" in Aberdeenshire ("Dee")— I have been unable 



to make a complete search for any record of the presence of this bird in Aber- 

 deenshire, but as it is omitted (under the headings of Aberdeen and Kin- 

 cardine), from the list of birds published by Col. H. M. Drummond Hay in 

 the Proceedings of the East of Scotland Union of Naturalists' Societies held at 

 Aberdeen, 26th June, 1886, I assume that it has not been yet recorded from 

 these counties. 



It may be of interest therefore to mention that my attention has been called 

 to the presence of this bunting near Aberdeen, and I have now (May) seen 

 some pairs of these birds on low-lying willow-covered wasteland frequented 

 principally by whinchats and sedge warblers. I have ascertained that the 

 buntings are breeding there, by the best evidence, viz., the discovery of a nest 

 built at the bottom and in the centre of a small bramble thicket. The nest 

 contained four eggs. 



J. Duncan Matthews. 



Mr. Matthews' note has called my attention to an omission in the record for 

 East Aberdeenshire in Col. Drummond Hay's valuable list of the Birds of the 

 North of Scotland. The Reed Bunting or Blackheaded Bunting is not rare on the 

 links along the coast north f om Aberdeen. So far back as 1866, 1 found a nest 

 with eggs in a whin bush, on the old Aberdeen Links ; and last year I found a 

 nest with young birds in a tuft of Psamma arenaria. Both nests were, like the 

 nests of other buntings, lined with horse-hair. 



James W. H. Trail. 



