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[KITE (Milvus regalis), p. 87. I cannot assign much importance 

 to a statement regarding a Kite said to have been seen upon Ben 

 Eval, and mentioned in Mr. Alfred Chapman's "Notes," because 

 credit can hardly be given to the truthfulness of his informant, who 

 was well known to Feilden and myself.] 



PEREGRINE FALCON (Falco peregrinus), p. 88. Mr. Andrew 

 M'Elfrish informs me that this fine species is still abundant "in all 

 the Outer Hebrides, and breeds in North Uist." He relates how, 

 upon one occasion (February 9, 1900) he was shooting Woodcock in 

 North Uist, when " my dog flushed a Woodcock too far out for a 

 shot. The bird turned round an angle of cliff and went out of my 

 sight. Immediately afterwards I was surprised by the Woodcock 

 dashing back to me and taking shelter in the heather at my feet, 

 closely pursued by a Peregrine. So keen was the chase that the 

 Falcon nearly escaped striking me." 



Mr. Radclyffe Waters considers them quite common in The 

 Lews, and writes me that he saw in one beat of his shooting the 

 remains of no less than five recently-killed grouse, all apparently 

 " the falcons' work." 



MERLIN (Falco ccsalon\ p. 90. To the range of the Merlin we 

 can now add the Flannan Isles, as one was sent to be identified 

 from the lighthouse. It occurred upon September 19, 1900 ("Ann. 

 Scot. Nat. Hist." 1901, p. 137). 



OSPREY (Pandion haliaetus], p. 91. This is an addition to the 

 "Fauna of the Outer Hebrides." The first on record was shot 

 in the spring of 1902 by the keeper of Lewis, and was stuffed by 

 M'Leay of Inverness. 



CORMORANT (Phalacrocorax carbo], p. 91. -A colony, new to 

 our previous information, has been indicated to me (south of the 

 Sound of Harris), but which, it is possible, was occupied before, and 

 may have escaped our notice. It is described as existing " in the 

 face of a cliff on the east side." But upon examination of this 

 locality in 1902, I found it was the same as we had spoken of 

 before in the " Fauna," and is only a resting-locality, and not a 

 nesting-place. 



GANNET (Snla bassana), p. 94. The annual movements of the 

 Gannet are now fairly well understood, and many useful details will 

 be found in the earlier Migration Reports, where it is clearly shown 

 that there is an E. to W. trend in the flights of Gannets past Cape 

 Wrath and past The Lews up to the date of about mid-summer ; 

 and then there is a pause during part of June. In part of June 

 there is little genuine migration ; and Gannets may be found 

 scattered more or less over the western seas wherever there is 

 sufficient inducements of food - supply. Where they most do 

 congregate is around the ever-shifting herring-shoals. Still the main 



