64 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



Four hundred and twenty Bird-skins from the duplicates of 

 the Tweeddale Collection, presented by Major Wardlaw Ramsay of 

 Whitehill. Sixty-three Bird-skins and a number of Mammals, Rep- 

 tiles, and Insects from the Gold Coast, presented by Dr. Ferrier. 

 A collection of Zoological Specimens in spirit from Swatow, China, 

 presented by Dr. Philip Cousland. Seventeen skins of Reptiles 

 and Fishes from the duplicates of the British Museum, presented by 

 the Trustees. Twenty Land Shells from New Caledonia and New 

 Hebrides, presented by Mr. E. L. Layard. Pelvic limb of the Right 

 Whale (Balcena mysticetus, Linn.), comprising the pelvic bone, femur 

 and tibia (the latter modelled in wood), also the original cartila- 

 ginous tibia in spirit, presented by Professor Struthers, M.D. Fifteen 

 exotic Mammals, from Mr. W. Eagle Clarke. Three Mammals from 

 San Diego, Texas, presented by Mr. W. Taylor. Euthemisto com- 

 pressa, Goes, and a Cucumaria from the Firth of Forth, presented by 

 Mr. Thomas Scott. Several specimens of Astronyx Loveni, from the 

 West Coast of Scotland, presented by Mr. W. Anderson Smith. Two 

 exotic Bird-skins, presented by Brigade-Surgeon Aitchison. Several 

 exotic Rays, presented by Professor Cossar Ewart, M.D. 



Of British Birds, specimens have been given to the Museum by 

 Mrs. Traill, by Major Wardlaw Ramsay, and by Messrs. J. A. Harvie- 

 Brown, W. Smith, W. Eagle Clarke, W. Berry, F. P. Johnson, 

 D. Smellie, and T. G. Laidlaw. 



Of British Mammals, by the Rev. George Birnie, and Messrs 

 G. H. Caton Haigh, J. C. Moodie Heddle, and Charles Campbell. 



Of British Fishes, by Messrs. C. Muirhead, E. W. Holt, and 

 W. Loudon. The last named gentleman's donation consists of a 

 number of the malformed trout of Gonar Burn, to which reference 

 was made in a previous paper in this journal. 



From the Caithness Flagstone Company the Museum has re- 

 ceived six Fossil Fishes from the Old Red Sandstone of that county, 

 while Professor Heddle has also presented a Slab of Sandstone from 

 the Upper "Old Red" of Dura Den, containing specimens of 

 Holoptychius Flemingii, Agassiz. Several Fossils from Glencartholm, 

 Eskdale, have also been given by Dr. Haddon, Canonbie. 



Among the purchases are : The bones of a specimen of Risso's 

 Grampus (Grampus griseus) caught in the Solway Firth, and which 

 are now being prepared to form a skeleton of this hitherto rare 

 Cetacean. A Barred Warbler (Sylvia nisoria) captured on the York- 

 shire Coast, a pair of Lapland Buntings (Calcarius Lapponicus) from 

 Norfolk, and a pair of Bearded Reedlings (Panurus biarmicus} and 

 their nestling, also from Norfolk, are among the rarer British Birds ac- 

 quired. A number of Fossil Fishes and Fish-remains from the Old 

 Red Sandstone of Caithness, including the type specimen of Homa- 

 canthus borealis, Traq. Eighty-three exotic Bird-skins ; also thirteen 

 Minerals, including the recently discovered Geikielite. 



R. H. TRAQUAIR, Keeper of Natural History Department. 



