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Die Fortschritte der Physik im Jahre, 1857. Dargestellt von der 
physikalischen Gesellschaft zu Berlin. XIII. Jahrgang. 
Zweite Abtheilung. — From the Society. 
Magnetical and Meteorological Observations made at the Honourable 
East India Company’s Observatory, Bombay, in the year 
1857, under the superintendence of Lieutenant E. F. T. Fer- 
gusson, I.N., F.R.A.S. Bombay, 1858. — From the Govern- 
ment of India. 
Lithograph of the Fossil Trees discovered in the Quarry at Granton. 
— Presented by Robert Allan , Esq., F.R.S.E. 
Tuesday , 11th April I860. 
THOMAS STEVENSON, Esq., Councillor, in the Chair. 
The following Communications were read : — 
1. On the Birds of Linlithgowshire. By Rev. John Duns, 
F.R.S.E., Torphichen. 
The author, having referred to the value of carefully prepared 
reports on the ornithology of particular districts, characterised 
the physical features of that part of Linlithgowshire in which his 
observations had mainly been made, and showed that it is well 
fitted for the support of a comparatively large number of species of 
birds. He stated that the following list had been gradually formed 
as the result of observations spread over fifteen years. Most of the 
species named had come under his own notice ; for a few he had 
been indebted to Thomas Durham Weir, Esq. of Boghead, an accu- 
rate observer. The classification followed is that which he had 
found most helpful to his own studies. Species seldom met with 
are printed in italics. 
Order I. — Raptores. 
Genera. Species. 
" Milvus — M. Reg alls. 
Falco — F. cesalon , F. tinnunculus. 
Accipiter — A. nisus. 
_ Circus — C. cyaneus. 
Strix — S. flammea, S. aluco, S. otus, S. brachyotus . 
Order II. — Scansores. 
Cuculus — C. canorus. 
Families. 
Falconid^e. 
Strigid^e. 
CuCULID.E. 
