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ill any other part of Perthshire. Along with it 1 
found the same species as I found in Ross-shire, 
namely, Zonites purus, crystallinus, and another 
which I cannot determine to my own satisfaction, 
but which is either excavatus or nitidus —possibly 
specimens of both species. Helix rotiiudata, aculeata, 
and pygmoea, Zua luhrica^ Vertigo suhstriata, and an¬ 
other Vertigo too immature to determine, CarycTiium 
minimum^ &c. The President further remarked that 
since he had made a list of the Scottish and Perth¬ 
shire shells in February, 1869, eight species hitherto 
unrecorded for the county had been found ; and 
it was worthy of notice that of the Perthshire 
list of sixty-one species, fifty-seven had been found 
within three miles of Perth, showing that there 
is every reason to believe that in such a wide 
field as remains to be searched many more will be 
found. 
Mr Robert Paton read the following paper on 
The Waterfowls of the Tay and its 
Tributaries. 
Part First.—The Waders. 
Ardea cinerea^ the Heron, is rather a handsome 
bird, and is to be met with on nearly all parts of the 
Tay and its tributaries. It may be seen almost any 
night or morning at the mouth of the Almond, or the 
top of the Wooded Island, looking out for breakfast 
or supper, as the case may be. I have seen as many 
as four or five at one time, within three or four 
hundred yards, all as busy at work as if they had 
been on an angling competition. The Heron is not 
too nice as to what it will or will not eat. It seems 
to act on the old saying, “ hunger is good kitchen,” 
for I have known it kill and half eat a rat. I have 
also seen a perch about a pound weight, partly eaten, 
which I have no doubt was killed by the Heron, who 
must have been scared before finishing .the dish. 
Still it seems to have a preference for eels, as these 
have always formed the major part of what I have 
found in the stomach ; and I have got as mauy eels 
in one Heron as would measure a couple of yards. 
