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Large Prehistoric Antlers of Red Deer, from Barry, 
Forfarshire.—For many years there has been preserved at 
Arthurstone a fine pair of old Red Deer’s antlers, found, probably 
about the middle of last century, in the sand-hills of Barry, 
Forfarshire, once famous as a royal hunting forest of the early 
Scottish kings. The antlers, which remain attached to the top 
of the skull, are in good preservation, only the tips of two or three 
tines being chipped. The right antler carries eleven points and 
the left ten, a grand total of twenty-one points, distributed as 
follows :—on both antlers, double brow tines, a bez tine, and a cup 
comprising eight points on the right and seven on the left antler. 
The greatest spread from tip to tip is 46 inches. 
The following measurements, kindly made for me by Capt. 
Murray Buchanan of Leny, indicate the chief dimensions in inches, 
“r.” and “1.” signifying right and left antlers :—Length along curve, 
r. 38, 1. 342; circumference below brow tine, r. and 1. 73; length 
of brow tine, r. 134, 1. 132; length of second brow tine, r. 10%, 
1. 9; circumference above second brow tine, r. 6, 1. 64; length of 
bez tine, r. 142, 1. 15; circumference above bez tine, r. and l. 53; 
length of longest point on cup, r. 132, 1. 113.—JAMES CARMICHAEL 
of Arthurstone, Meigle. 
[This fine head, which compares favourably with any yet 
recorded from Scotland, emphasises once again the resemblance 
in size of the original Scottish Red Deer to the present representa- 
tives of the species in the forests of the continent. It clearly 
belongs to a period before man had begun to restrict the haunts 
of the Scottish Red Deer, while they still inhabited the forests and 
fertile plains to the very margin of the sea.—J. R.] 
‘*‘Blue-mouth ” (Scorpzena dactyloptera) off Dunbar.—On 
1st August a male example of this brilliant scarlet deep-sea fish 
was captured by a fisherman about 18 miles out from Dunbar. 
The specimen, which was sent to the Royal Scottish Museum 
by Mr W. Bertram, was in good condition, but no food was 
found in its stomach, though the intestine contained unidentifiable 
debris of a meal. The earliest Scottish specimens of this fish 
were found south-east of the Isle of May in the spring of 1894.— 
James RITCHIE. 
“Wood-wasp” (Sirex gigas) at Edinbarnet, Dumbarton- 
shire.—The keeper of Edinbarnet saw several females of Sirex 
gigas flying in sunlight between the pines in Todhill Wood. He 
found where they settled near the flight-holes, and having captured 
specimens kept them for my inspection. During the second and 
