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south-western counties of England only known as a winter 

 visitant. 



It usually breeds in the hollow of a tree, and sometimes 

 among ivy ; but, as above mentioned, it is in some localities 

 found nesting in rabbit warrens. It nests early, and produces 

 two, sometimes three, broods annually. 



V. Dr John Alex. Smith exhibited various Ethnological 

 Objects from the Fiji Islands. These were recently received 

 from Fiji by his friend, Mr William Mitchell. They consist of 

 a series of the short wooden clubs with bulbous extremities, 

 and their slender handles ornamented with carving. Speci- 

 mens of the curious hand-made pottery of different colours, 

 which distinguish Fiji from all the eastward South Sea 

 Islands. Some of these are formed of two or more round, 

 or oval, ornamented vessels joined together, with their 

 handles meeting above ; others are simple, and of all sizes and 

 shapes for ordinary purposes. They are glazed when hot 

 with a kind of pine resin. A large wig of human hair. Mr 

 Thomas Williams, the missionary, in his account of Fiji 

 (1858), says the Fijian delights and excels in wig-making, an 

 art which seems to be unknown to the other islanders. Neck- 

 laces made of long and narrow-pointed rib-bones, strung 

 together, were also exhibited, as well as specimens of the 

 root of the grog-tree, or intoxicating pepper-tree {Piper 

 methystieiim), from which the " kava " drink is made. 



Also specimens of the beautiful red-spotted crab (Garpilius 

 maculatus) from the Pemuto Islands, near Tahiti. It measures 

 4i inches across, by 4 from back to front. Etc., etc. 



VI. Note of a Large Common Trout (Salmo fario ?) taken in the 

 Biver Tay. (Specimen exhibited.) By John Alex. 

 Smith, M.D. 



This large trout was killed in the Tay in Glendochart in 

 July 1877. It had red and black spots, and the abdominal 

 fins bordered with yellow. It weighed 17 lbs., and measured 



