158 REPORT— 1861. 



District. 1857. 1858. 1859. 18G0. 



Buckie district 20,62.5 19,140 14,500 22,676 



Whitehills 2,750 GGO 868 ' 1,.S.S2 



13anff 1,529 550 455 778 



Macduff 6,.386 2,404 2,008 3,687 



Gardenstown 6,816 5,8-32 .3,072 4,836 



Fraserburgh 28,714 47,929 26,838 22,475 



Peterhead 19,.3.55 2.5,728 15,-311 21,8-50 



Anstruther 24,000 70,544 28,000 83,000 



Dimbar 11,254 30,624 11,020 23,304 



Eyemouth 15,240 14,950 15,862 16,906 



North Sunderland 5,709 4,300 7,630 6,591 



Orkney 11,590 1.3,320 11,5.50 11,798 



Lewis (early fishing) . . 13,500 7,140 18,170 28,875 



Total Catch of Herrings for the past Eight Years, from Northumberland to the 



Lewis, excluding Zetland and tlie Ayrshire and Argyleshu-e Coasts. 



Year. Barrels. Year. Barrels. 



1854 348,881 



1855 461,549 



18.56 337,443 



1857 329,251 



1858 393,035 



1859 294,143 



18G0 439,879 



1801 467,906. 



Remarks on the late Increase of our Knoivledc/e of the Struthious Birds. 

 By P. L. ScLATER, M.A., Ph.D., F.R.S. 



After pointing out the general characters of the birds of the order Struthtones, and 

 the peculiarities displayed in the structure of the two families, the Sfruthionuhe 

 and Aptcry(iid(B, of which alone recent representati^-es were loiown, Dr. Sclater 

 called the attention of the Meeting to the large increase in our knowledge of the 

 species of this group of birds which had recently taken place. Lentil lately, each of 

 the types, Stndhio, liJica, C'asuan'us, Dromants, and A2rieryx, had been supposed to 

 be represented by a single species. There now appeared to be indications, more or 

 less precise, of the existence of twelve species ot Sfnitltionidcc, and (as the author 

 has abeady shown in his joint Report with Dr. Hochstetter on the genus Apteryx'^) 

 four species of the family Apieryyklce. 



The following Table was exliibited, giving the names of tliese species and their 

 localities, as far as they were known. 



TABULA AVIUM STRUTIHONUM. 



Fam. I. SlEUTHIOOTDiE. 



a. Strtdhionince. 



et. Struthio. 



1. cameliis, ex Afr. et As. Occ. 

 /3. Rhea. 



2. americana, ox rep. Ai-gent. 



3. macrorhyncha, ex rep. Argent. {?). 



4. dai-wini, ex Patagonia. 



b. Casuariince. 



y. Casuarius. 



5. galeatus, ex ins. Ceram. 



6. bicarimculatus, ex patr. ign. 



7. kaupi, ex ins. Salawatty. 



8. uni-appcndiculatus, ex patr. igii. 



9. bennettii, ex Nov. Britann. 



10. australis, ex Nov. Ho] I. Bor. 



8. Droniffius. 



11. novro liollandifp, ex Austr. Or. 



12. irroratus, ex Austr. Occ. 



* See antea, p. 176. 



