CONTENTS. VOL. IV.-SEPT. 1878 TO APRIL 1880. Accounts, Abstract Statement of, Session 1877-8, Albino Specimen of the Hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus, the Earl of Anderson, Mr. Thomas, of Girvan, Note on the Death of, - R. J. Bennett, PAGE 114 332 73 37 122 10 Apiarian Notes in Argyllshire for 1879, by Mr. R. J. Bennett, 193 quhar on, 199 Apteryx owenii of New Zealand, and its Eggs, On. By Mr. John A. Archaeology and Natural History of Tory Island, On the. By Mr. J. A. Mahony, Corresponding Member. Auk, Little (Mergulus alle), exhibited, (With two Plates, 80 213 120 Avondale, Notes on the Botany of. By Mr. R. Turner, Barra Head and its Bird-Life. By Mr. George M‘Lachlan, formerly Birds of Buchan, Collected Notes on the. By Mr. William Horn, Birds of the North-west of Perthshire, Notes on the. By Mr. 54 Bittern, Botaurus stellaris, exhibited, 37 Boring Marine Alga penetrating the shell structure of a species of 77 Botanical, Notes chiefly, of a Visit to the Island of Coll. By Mr. Thomas Scott, 226 Botany of Avondale, Notes on the. By Mr. R. Turner, PAGE Brachiopoda, Notes on Carboniferous. By Mr. Robt. Etheridge, Jun., Buchan, Collected Notes on the Birds of. By Mr. William Horn, Calciferous Sandstone Fossils, from near Heads of Ayr, Mr. Walter Carboniferous Species of Glauconome, Notes on a. By Mr. John Caterpillars, On the use of Coloration and Markings of, and on the Young, F.G.S., V.-P., Development of the Insect. By Mr. Peter Cameron, Chapman, Mr. Thomas, Notice of the Death of, Chile, The Flora of. By Mr. Thomas King, Chonetes gibberula, Mr. John Young, F.G.S., on, Claytonia alsinoides from Dumfriesshire, Mr. John Kirsop on, 8 263 19 257 224 122 41 79 18 17 226 7 192 Clearwing, Hornet, Sesia bemiformis, Mr. D. M'Lellan on the, Coll, Notes, chiefly Botanical, of a Visit to the Island of. By Mr. Colquhoun, Note on the Death of Dr. Hugh, Condor (Sarcorampus gryphus), Mr. John M. Campbell on the,- Conodont Remains and Sponge Spicules from the Silurian and Devonian Craigenglen, Account of Excursion to, 191 5, 10 Crake, Spotted, Porzana maruetta (Leach), Mr. James Lumsden, 17 Crinoid Stems, Notes and Observations of Adventitious Structures on. By "A Corresponding Member," communicated by Mr. 73 Crinoid Stems, Observations on the Swollen Condition of Carbonifer ous. By Mr. R. Etheridge, Jun., F.G.S. (with two Plates, 19 Curlew, Esquimaux (Numenius borealis), Mr. John A. Harvie-Brown, 12 Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale), Mr. A. F. Fergus on an abnormal variety of, 213 Dentalium, On the Species of, found in the Carboniferous Strata of Eagle (Golden) (Aquila chrysaëtus), the, exhibited, Ferns, Fossil, from Bothwell, Mr. John Young, F.G.S., on, 18 41 Fungi, Messrs. Thomas King and Peter Ewing on, 195 Fungi, On. By Mr. Thomas King, 259 Glauconome, Notes on a Carboniferous Species of. By Mr. John Young, F.G.S., V.-P., 257 Hebrides, On the Mammalia of the Outer. By Mr. John A. Harvie Brown, F.Z.S., M.B. O. U., V.-P., 88 Hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus, Albino specimen of the, the Earl of 37 Hoopoe, Upupa epops, Mr. James Lumsden, F.Z.S., on the, Iceland, On the Birds of. By Mr. George A. Burns, 12 108 15 Kiwi (Apteryx australis), Mr. John M. Campbell on the, 271 Loch Lomond, Ornithological Jottings from the neighbourhood of. 199 Mammalia of Scotland, On the. By Mr. Edward R. Alston, F.Z.S., 80 (Title only, this Paper being a contribution to the FAUNA Mammalia of the Outer Hebrides, On the. By Mr. John A. Harvie- Meteorological Notes, and Remarks on the State of Vegetation during 1879. By Mr. D. M'Lellan, Superintendent of Parks, Meteorological Record kept at Queen's Park, Glasgow, for the years 1876-77-78, Meteorological Record kept at Queen's Park, Glasgow, for 1877-78-79, Migration of Birds in the Autumn of 1878 and the Spring of 1879, Remarks on. By Mr. John A. Harvie-Brown, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., Moa (Dinornis gigantea), Mr. George A. Burns on bones of the,Moss-cup (Peziza coccinea), Mr. A. F. Fergus on, Newt, Alpine (Triton alpestris), Mr. John M. Campbell on the, 66 Opossum, Common (Didelphis aurita), Comadreja picaso," or Black Opossum, Yellow (Didelphis crassicaudata), from Cape San Antonio, Province of Buenos Ayres, On the. By Mr. Ernest Gibson, Ornithological Jottings from the neighbourhood of Loch Lomond, Ornithology, Second Report on Scottish, October 1st, 1879, to Sep- Ostracoda, Fresh- and Brackish-water, chiefly from the West of Parasites and Saprophytes, Vegetable. By Mr. Robert Turner, Peccary, Collared (Dicotyles tajacu), Mr. John M. Campbell on the, - Pentremites (Say.), On the occurrence of the genus, in the Carbon- iferous Limestone series of the East of Scotland. By Mr. Robert Etheridge, Jun., F.G.S., Pres. Roy. Phys. Soc., Edin. (Plate V., 84 199 123 291 77 260 Productus, Notes on the occurrence of a species of Boring Marine Alga penetrating the Shell Structure of a species of. By Mr. |