. A fauna of the Tay Basin & Strathmore . to, viz.: raising the questionas to the importance or otherwise of some newly defined values indescribing tlie position of species in the fauna, such as whether anyspecies be truly gregarious, or merely flighting at times ofmigration; whether birds exhibit truly gregarious tendencies allthrough their lives, or only herd together at times and seasons, in-fluenced by circumstances over which they appear to have little orno control. In other words, whether certain birds spend all theirlives in the company of others of their species, or separate at acertai
. A fauna of the Tay Basin & Strathmore . to, viz.: raising the questionas to the importance or otherwise of some newly defined values indescribing tlie position of species in the fauna, such as whether anyspecies be truly gregarious, or merely flighting at times ofmigration; whether birds exhibit truly gregarious tendencies allthrough their lives, or only herd together at times and seasons, in-fluenced by circumstances over which they appear to have little orno control. In other words, whether certain birds spend all theirlives in the company of others of their species, or separate at acertain season and become independent of one anothers society. If these newly introduced values should tend towards any furtherelucidation of the mysteries of migration, and of dispersal and distri-bution, or even should they not, I hope the object of this series willat least receive recognition as an attempt to throw some new lightupon these objects of study. ANNALS OF THE PERTHSHIEE SOCIETY OFNATURAL SCIENCE.^ By Henry Coates, Esq., PERTHSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM. The Society was founded on 28th February 1867, by fifteen gentle-men desirous of promoting in Perth the practical study of naturalhistory, by the exhibition and preservation of specimens, the read-ing of communications, by lectures, excursions, and the formation ofa library and museum. This inaugural meeting was held in aback room in Charlotte Street, and was presided over by the late ^ This sketch is condensed from an address delivered by the president, Coates, at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting, on 9th March 1905, andprinted in the Pioceedings, vol. iv. part ii., page Ivi. The statistics are broughtdown to March 1906. ANNALS OF PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE, xxiii Dr. F. Buchanan White, , , who was appointed the firstpresident. During the first three years the meetings were held inthe Glovers* Hall, George Street. During the next ten years, from1871 to 1881, the home of the Societ
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