204 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



MERGULUS ALLE (Little Auk). Lerwick, ist January, one found 

 dead; 22nd, one in the harbour; Thurso district, iith, one; 

 North Queensferry, i4th, one; Dunbar, 22nd February, one 

 ("A.S.N.H.," 1905, p. 119); Bell Rock, iSth, four. One 

 picked up alive in the end of December near Kilconquhar. 

 When put into a tub it dived easily, using its wings under 

 water ; it also swam about, at times rolling its body from side 

 to side. It seemed quite uninjured, and was very pugnacious, 

 holding on to a hand or glove, and worrying it like a dog. One 

 at Fair Isle on 8th November (p. 79). 



FRATERCULA ARCTICA (Puffin). On lyth April great numbers 

 at Sule Skerry (wind S.E.), landed i9th; Unst, iSth, great 

 numbers (wind E.) ; Flannans, 24th, hundreds (wind E.). Sule 

 Skerry, yth August, getting fewer since this date, "a score still 

 here, ist September." 



COLYMBUS SEPTENTRIONALIS (Red-throated Diver). Latest in first 

 half of year, one at Bute on ist May. Reported in September 

 from four Fife localities between i4th and 29th. 



PODICIPES FLUVIATILIS (Little Grebe). Reported building, Kirk- 

 liston, i6th April; sitting, Edinburgh, 25th; "trilling" at 

 Kilconquhar, 2oth September. 



P. AURITUS (Slavonian Grebe). One, perhaps two, pairs on the 



Fair Isle, 4th and 6th October (p. 80). 

 PROCELLARIA PELAGICA (Storm-Petrel). One found in nest on loth 



June at Flannans, and on i6th October a young one in down 

 " it wont leave its hole for three weeks." 

 PUFFINUS ANGLO-RUM (Manx Shearwater). At Skerry vore, several 



seen passing most of the day in a southerly direction, on iSth 



March. 



FULMARUS GLACIALIS (Fulmar). At the Flannans, i3th March ( c?) ; 

 Dunnet, 3rd June, twenty-two pairs breeding this season ; 5th, 

 Fitful Head, large numbers ; sitting at Noss, Shetland, on 8th 

 June. One found dead on Belhaven Sands on 26th September. 

 Thirty pairs nesting at Fitful Head (" A.S.N.H.," 1905, p. 246). 



Acknowledgment is due to the following contributors : In the 

 Northern group of localities, John R. Lawrence, Pentland Skerries ; 

 John Grant and others, the light-keepers at Sule Skerry; Robert 

 Brown and Dugald M'Millan, Auskerry ; T. E. Arthur and 

 Kenneth Sinclair, North Ronaldshay ; W. Eagle Clarke, the Fair 

 Isle ; John S. Tulloch, Leog, Lerwick ; Robert H. Bell, Lerwick ; 

 T. Henderson, Jr., Dunrossness ; Dr. T. Edmonston Saxby, 

 Unst, Yell, and Fetlar. On the east of Scotland Lewis Dunbar, 

 Thurso ; Ewen Kennedy, Delny, East Ross ; John Milne, Auchin- 

 blae, Kincardineshire ; the keeper of the Bell Rock Lighthouse 



