PROCEEDINGS OP THE PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OP NATURAL SCIENCE, 
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—two stoats; J. Martin White, Dundee—one yellow 
hammer, one chaffinch, one wren, and one longtailed tit ; 
Mr M‘Eean, Murie House, Errol—one hooded crow ; Mr 
Eraser, Innergeldie—one peregrine falcon; James Keay, 
Murthly—two pairs woodcock eggs, and one bat; Mr Hol¬ 
lingsworth, Errol—one kestrel hawk; P. D. Malloch, High 
Street—one common gull, one common bunting, one ringed 
plover, one dipper, one meadow pipit, one yellow hammer, 
and two pied wagtails; Mr Hunter, Balhary—one sparrow 
hawk; Mr Crerar, Faskally—one stoat; James Keay, 
Murthly—one redpole, and one golden-crested wren; Gr. 
M‘Gregor, Moncreiffe—one tawny owl; P. D. Malloch, 
High Street—one common bunting, and oDe lark; Mr 
Logie, Eannoch—one raven; P. D. Malloch, High Street 
—one dipper, one song thrush, two sky-larks, two hedge- 
sparrows, two cole-tits, one grey wagtail, one chaffinch, 
and one longtailed tit; Mr M'Intosb, Aberuchill—one jay, 
and one starling; Mr Keay, Murthly—dabchick, one red¬ 
shank, one hedge-sparrow, one longtailed tit, and one 
golden-crested wren; Mr Haggart, Murthly—one jay, and 
one grey shrike; Mr Keay, Murthly—one grey wagtail; 
John M'Niven, Edinchip—two lesser black-backed gulls ; 
Messrs J. & H. Coates—a collection of the land and fresh 
water shells of Perthshire; Mr Patrick Geddes, E.K.S.E, 
—pamphlets; Torry Botanical Club, New York (in ex¬ 
change), The Torry Botanical Bulletin. 
Dr Buchanan White communicated the following 
notes:— 
1. Pyrola rotundifolia. This has been long recorded as 
a Perthshire plant, but no locality mentioned. Having 
recently had an opportunity of consulting the late Mr 
Watson’s herbarium (which is now at the Royal Her¬ 
barium, Kew), I find that the locality of his Perthshire 
specimens is Dunkeld, when the plant was found in 1840. 
It is very desirable that the exact station should be re¬ 
discovered; and the object of this note is to impress on 
any one who may botanize in that neighbourhood this 
summer to keep a look-out for the plant. 
2. At the February meeting I communicated some 
notes on the flowering of plants in my rock garden. 
The following table gives the dates of a few species that 
have come into flower since that time. From these it 
would appear that plants are about 37 days in advance of 
what they were last year, though it is probable that the 
ungenial weather we have recently experienced will tead 
to reduce the disparity between 1882 and 1881. The 
horse chestnut on the Bowerswell Road, whose precocity 
in coming into leaf I mentioned in my notes of February, 
came into leaf about March 15, which is about 43 days 
sooner than it did last year, 21 days sooner than in 1880, 
and no less than 46 days earlier than 1879. I observed in 
one of the newspapers lately that swallows had been seen 
some time ago at (I think) Butterstone. This is probably 
an error of observation, the birds in question being pro¬ 
bably sand-martins, and not the true swallow. All mem¬ 
bers of the Hirundidce (the swallow family) are called 
swallows by careless observers, and hence these erroneous 
and misleading records of early appearances; while the fact 
is that the martins, and especially the s£tnd-martins, are 
always earlier in arriving than the true swallow, and not 
unfrequently appear in March. Apart from other differ¬ 
ences, the longer and pointed forked tail of the swallow 
serves to distinguish it at a glance from the martins, which 
have squarer tails : — 
Saxifraga 
alba,... 
ppositifolia j 
Do. do. vulgaris, 
Erysimum pulchellum, .. 
Crocus (common yellow),.. 
Draba aizoides, —.. 
Do. aizoon, . 
Saxifraga oppositifolia \ 
major,.J 
Hacquetia epipactis,. 
Luzula campestris,. 
Primula denticulata, .... 
Do. marginata,. 
Viola hirta,. 
Corydalis cava,. 
Do. bulbosa,. 
Draba rupestris,. 
Ranunculus ficaria,. 
Salix caprea,. 
Schivereckia podalica,.... 
Doronicum caucasicum,.. 
Anemone nemorosa,. 
Carex ornithopoda,. 
Oxalis acetosella, . 
Cardamine trifolia,. 
Viola sylvatica alba. 
Myosotis dissitiflora.. 
Arabis lucida. 
Corydalis lutea,. 
Do. ochroleuca,_ 
Horse Chestnut onl 
Bowerswell Road, .... J 
Dicentra formosa,. 
Arenaria balearica, . 
Anemone coronaria,. 
Geranium robertianum 1 
album,.j 
Viola biflora,. 
Saxifraga StanBfielcli, 
1877 
Mar. 2 
Mar. 22 
Mar. 18 
May 6 
May 6 
May 1 
May 4 
May 23 
May 9 
1878 
1879 
1880 
1881 
1882 
Feb. 
20 
Mar. 
10 
Feb. 
21 
Mar. 
16 
Feb. 
18 
Mar. 
20 
Feb. 
22 
Mar. 
20 
Feb, 
12 
Mar. 
22 
Feb. 
18 
Mar. 
9 
Mar. 
15 
Feb, 
3 
Apr. 
10 
Mar. 
14 
Apr. 
14 
Feb. 
24 
Apr. 
4 
Feb. 
27 
Mar. 
12 
Mar. 
2 
April 
Feb. 
24 
Mar. 
20 
Feb. 
18 
Mar. 
28 
Feb, 
6 
May 
3 
Mar. 
5 
Apr. 
6 
Mar. 
15 
Feb. 
23 
Mar. 
20 
Feb. 
22 
April 
Feb. 
16 
Apr. 
10 
Mar. 
18 
Apr. 
22 
Mar. 
29 
Apr. 
14 
Mar. 
27 
Apr. 
10 
Mar. 
5 
Apr. 
15 
Mar. 
15 
Apr. 
24 
Apr. 
5 
Apr. 
15 
Mar, 
15 
April 
Apr. 
14 
Mar. 
27 
Apr. 
15 
Mar. 
4 
Apr. 
16 
Mar. 
-10 
Apr. 
18 
Mar. 
20 
Apr. 
14 
Mar. 
10 
Apr. 
10 
Mar. 
6 
Apr. 
12 
Mar. 
15 
Mar. 
30 
Apr. 
21 
Feb. 
28 
May 
4 
Apr. 
6 
Apr. 
22 
Mar. 
28 
May 
fll 
Apr. 
a 
Apr. 
20 
Mar. 
28 
Apr. 
24 
May 
3 
Apr. 
7 
Apr. 
24 
Mar. 
28 
Mar. 
May 
7 
Mar. 
14 
Apr. 
21 
Mar. 
15 
May 
10 
Apr. 
9 
Apr. 
24 
Mar. 
26 
Feb. 
23 
Apr. 
22 
Mar. 
1 
April 
Feb. 
16 
Apr. 
25 
Mar. 
14 
Apr. 
26 
Mar. 
15 
Apr. 
16 
May 
1 
Mar. 
21 
Apr. 
7 
Apr. 
28 
Mar. 
12 
May 
1 
Apr. 
5 
Apr. 
27 
Mar. 
15 
Apr. 
7 
Apr, 
25 
Mar. 
15 
Apr. 
24 
May 
16 
Apr. 
24 
May 
4 
Mar. 
28 
May 
15 
May 
8 
Apr. 
20 
May 
7 
Feb. 
22 
Apr. 
30 
May 
22 
Apr. 
9 
May 
14 
Mar. 
20 
Apr. 
29 
May 
12 
Apr. 
1 
May 
10 
Apr. 
23 
May 
9 
Mar. 
28 
3. Viola sylvatica , Viola canina , &c. The common 
wood and dog violets are abundant enough everywhere, 
but those who have not paid attention to them would be 
astonished at the amount of variation presented by a series 
of specimens collected in different localities, and brought 
together for comparison. It is very desirable to endeavour 
to ascertain the extent of this variation in Perthshire, and 
I would therefore beg members to collect specimens from 
different localities in their districts, and preserve them for 
the Society’s herbarium. The plants should be taken up 
by the roots, and a note of the locality kept with the 
specimen. 
