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LARUS GLAUCUS, Glaucous Gull. Local specimen in Braemore 

 collection. New record. 



RISSA TRIDACTYLA, Kittiwake. " More numerous the last few 

 years." This gull was not observed in 1890-92, but was said to 

 occur in Loch Torridon. 



PODICIPES AURITUS, Sclavonian Grebe. A second specimen of 

 this Grebe shot by D. Matheson at Shieldaig, April 1902. Previous 

 record March 1893. 



STERCORARIUS PARASITICUS, Buffon's Skua. A specimen in the 

 Braemore collection was shot by Sir Arthur Fowler on the hill while 

 stalking. New record. 



STERCORARIUS CREPIDATUS, Arctic Skua. Local specimen in 

 Braemore collection. " Not often seen." New record. 



PROCELLARIA PELAGICA, Stormy Petrel. In the Braemore 

 collection. " Common at mouth of Loch Broom." 



COLYMBUS GLACIALIS, Great Northern Diver. "Rare." 



NOTES ON BIRDS OF SOUTH UIST, OUTER 



HEBRIDES. 



By DONALD GUTHRIE. 



CINCLUS AQUATICUS, Dipper, p. 47. l Very common in South 

 Uist. I never saw its nest there, but it stays all the year round. 

 I find it most numerous on some of the wildest streams. 



PYRRHOCORAX GRACULUS, Chough, p. 69. I saw one in the 

 summer of 1902. 



CORVUS MONEDULA, Jackdaw, p. 69. Often seen in South 

 Uist, but never stays for any time. 



CORVUS CORONE, Carrion Crow, p. 70. Not altogether un- 

 common, and is often taken by the majority of people for the 

 Raven. I got the eggs of one which nested in Barra, but it is more 

 as a migratory bird in its appearance in the islands. 



CORVUS CORNIX, Hooded Crow, p. 70. As a breeding bird is 

 not nearly so common, but as a migratory bird its numbers depend 

 considerably upon the amount of carrion cast ashore, and the 

 number of horses, cattle, and sheep dying on the islands, which I am 

 sorry to say are almost always left on the surface, notwithstanding 



1 The numbers refer to the original page in the " Fauna of the Outer 

 Hebrides." 



