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April 1 6. A Snow Bunting seen near the cliff in afternoon. 



April 21. Two Snow Buntings seen on Observatory roof in 

 afternoon. 



April 24. Snow Bunting seen on tower at i 7 hours. 

 April 25. Snow Bunting seen near cliff in afternoon. 

 December 18. Fox and Weasel tracks seen on snow this morning. 

 December 26. A Raven seen at 16 hours. 



1904. 



January 23. Two Ravens seen at M'Lean's Steep. 

 February 5. Two Snow Buntings seen at 13 hours. 

 March 5. A pair of Ravens seen at 1 1 hours 30 minutes. 

 March 9. A Raven seen in evening. 

 March 20. Snow Bunting seen at 8 hours. 

 May 27. Raven seen at 1 1 hours near the cliff. 



June 19. Rat seen in early morning, and again at night, feeding 

 (on spilt corn ?) in front of the kitchen window. 



June 23. A large Hare seen on summit at midnight. 



June 26. Heard call of Ptarmigan and croaks of Raven at 4 hours. 



August 10. Two Weasels seen near the stable in forenoon. 



Nothing more noted till the close of the record on ist 

 October 1904. 



NOTES ON THE BIRDS OF ST. KILDA. 



By Rev. NEIL MACKENZIE. 



Compiled from his Memoranda by Rev. J. B. MACKENZIE, F.S.A. (Scot.). 



{Continued from p. So.) 



The SHEARWATER \_Pnffinus angloruui\, which is here 

 called " serabaire " from the way it pats the water, arrives 

 towards the end of February. About the end of March, or 

 at times a little earlier, it begins to visit its breeding places. 

 It makes its nest in holes either under boulders or in holes 

 like those of a rabbit. It is not, however, till May that it 

 lays its solitary egg, which it hatches in six or seven weeks. 

 If the first egg is taken away many of them will lay a second 



