Cii PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
A male Smew was shot by Mr. Kelsall on the Earn, near Crieff. 
This bird is particularly rare here, and we were very anxious indeed 
to possess it, as we already had a female. The Society is much 
indebted for this gift to Mr. Kelsall, all the more that he is himself 
an ardent ornithologist and collector. 
Our friend, Mr. P. D. Malloch, presented to the Society a very 
beautiful male specimen of the Green Sandpiper, shot at Kilgraston, 
near the Bridge of Earn, in 1893. 
A Ringed Plover from the Rev. Roger Davidson, from opposite 
Mugdrum Island. 
From Miss Watson of Inchyra we received a male Pomerine 
Skua, and from Mr. G. Kidd we have a Spotted Crake, a very 
beautiful bird, and a male Goosander. 
The last specimen from Colonel Drummond Hay is that of a 
Teal Duck, with curiously interesting white markings. It has a band 
of white on the throat and one over each eye. 
To the Mammals there has not been added much that is new, 
but they are now exhibited in handsome cases and can be viewed to 
advantage. The centre case represents a very pleasant and instructive 
bit of Highland moor, upon which stand a stag and hind of the Red 
Deer, the gifts of the Marquis of Breadalbane and the Duke of 
Atholl. There is beside them a particularly fine specimen of the 
Roe Buck, presented to us by Colonel Campbell. The preparing 
and stuffing of the specimens for this case was intrusted to Mr. 
P. D. Malloch and carried out by Mr. Charles Kirk. I feel sure you 
will all agree that Mr. Kirk has succeeded in putting before us such 
an example of the taxidermist’s art as can be seen in very few 
provincial museums. 
There has lately been added, by the intervention of Prof. D’Arcy 
W. Thompson, the very rare and beautiful Harp Seal, Phoca Groen- 
Icindica. This seal, a native of the Arctic regions, is frequently to be 
met with on the west coast of our island, but very seldom on the east 
coast. It is of interest, perhaps, to mention in passing that this is 
the species which is procured in such vast numbers by the sealers on 
the Newfoundland and Labrador coasts and in the waters of 
Greenland. 
The Fishes have had numerous additions during the year, notably 
a number of casts, the colouring of which was done by Mr. George 
Muirhead: — 
1 st. That of a large Salmon, re-painted. 
2nd. A Yellow Trout, purchased. 
3rd. A Yellow Trout, presented by Mr. Wm. Morrison. 
From Mr. James Stewart we had casts of the Flounder, Gray¬ 
ling, Stickleback, Minnow, and Perch, all of which were painted by 
Miss M. G. Dickson. 
Index Museum .—At the Meeting of the East of Scotland Union 
of Naturalists’ Societies held last November I gave an account of what 
our intentions are regarding the arrangement of this room. At 
present it remains as set for the opening of the Museum. We are in 
hopes before long to get our theories put into practice. Orders have 
