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in Gray regarding the great preponderance of Barnacle Geese and 

 the scarcity of Brent Geese rest, as I can find no confirmation of 

 them in "Clyde." I am certain that the term "Barnacle Goose" 

 is often applied generically to the two species under consideration, 

 and that statements regarding flocks of " Barnacle Geese " cannot 

 safely be assumed to point in all cases to Bernida leucopsis. JOHN 

 PATERSON, Glasgow. 



Turtle Dove in Argyle. On the yth of September, at Drimnin 

 in Morvern, I shot a Turtle Dove (Turtur communis) a fact that 

 may be worth recording in the " Annals," since the bird is certainly 

 uncommon in the West of Scotland. ARCHIBALD BURN-MURDOCH, 

 Edinburgh. 



Capercailzie in the Mid-Deveron District. I have to apologise 

 for sending you such a belated notice of what so far as known 

 is the first instance of a Capercailzie being found in this district. 

 On the 2 gth September of last year a young cock bird was shot by 

 one of the keepers at a roe drive in the Binn Wood near Huntly. 

 It was bagged as a blackcock, and acknowledged to be of un- 

 precedented size. The bird was not in full plumage, and was probably 

 hatched in that very extensive wood. At least one other was 

 reported in course of the season. DUNCAN M. Ross, Glass. 



Iceland Gull in the Outer Hebrides. Mr. D. Mackenzie, of the 

 Royal Hotel, Stornoway, sent an Iceland Gull {Larus leucoptems) to 

 Messrs. Macleay, Inverness, for preservation. It was procured about 

 the last days of August, which is an early date for that bird's 

 appearance. T. E. BUCKLEY, Inverness. 



Buffon's Sk.vc&.^tercorariusparasiticus) in Moray. One specimen 

 was obtained at the mouth of the Findhorn river by John Garrow, 

 Esq., on the nth August 1897, as we are informed by Mr. James 

 Brown. J. A. HARVIE-BROWN. 



Fulmar Petrels at Cape Wrath in the Breeding Season. On 



the i gth of June last the s.s. "Pharos" left Loch Erriboll for Cape 

 Wrath, where it was intended to land lighthouse stores. When 

 close off the cliff which lies about half a mile to the eastward of the 

 headland, which is a great breeding station of various species of 

 rock-fowl, I was much surprised to see around the ship several 

 Fulmar Petrels (Fidmarus gladalis) flying about in company with 

 the numerous Guillemots, Razorbills, Puffins, Kittiwakes, etc. On 

 the 3oth of June the "Pharos" again called at Cape Wrath, and I 

 again saw the Fulmar. If these birds had been observed at sea off 

 the Cape, there would have, perhaps, been nothing remarkable in 

 the circumstance ; but their occurrence in the height of the season 

 in the vicinity of a large breeding station of rock-birds, and their 

 association with the birds actually nesting on the cliff, is significant, 

 since it strongly suggests that the Fulmar has now a breeding 



