376 Proceedings of the Royal=Physical Society. 
XXIX. Additional Notes on the Fossil Fishes of the Upper 
Old Red Sandstone of the Moray Firth Area. By 
R. H. Traquatr, M.D., LL.D., F.RS. [Plates X. 
and XI.] 
(Read 16th December 1896.) 
Since the publication of my memoir on the “Extinct 
Vertebrata of the Moray Firth Area,”! a certain amount of 
new material from the Upper Old Red Sandstone of the 
districts of Elgin and Nairn has come to hand, for most of 
which I have to thank the untiring industry of my friend 
Mr William Taylor of Lhanbryde. I have also to thank 
Dr Woodward, F.R.S., and Mr Smith Woodward, F.LS., for 
their kind permission to examine and to take notes and 
drawings of specimens in the Brickenden Collection, recently 
acquired by the Geological Department of the British 
Museum. 
FISHES FROM THE NAIRN SANDSTONE. 
As shown in the memoir referred to above, the fish-fauna 
of the Nairn beds, which apparently constitute a distinct 
division of the Upper Old Red Sandstone of the south side 
of the Moray Firth, is different from that which is contained 
in the strata of the adjoining district of Alves and Elgin. 
I had not, at the time I wrote, found any one species common 
to the two sets of rocks, and of especial interest was the fact 
that the characteristic fish of the Nairn strata belonged to 
a genus, namely Asterolepis, which occurs nowhere else in 
Great Britain, while not a vestige of any species of Bothrio- 
lepis, a genus otherwise so generally characteristic of 
the Upper Old Red, had ever been collected. In fact, 
paleontologically, the Nairn beds may be compared with 
those of Wenden in Russia; the Elgin strata with those 
of the Sjass in the same country. 
1 In Harvie-Brown and Buckley’s ‘‘ Vertebrate Fauna of the Moray Basin,” 
vol. ii., pp. 285-285. Edinburgh, D. Douglas, 1896. 
