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have been recorded as being so in the reports to the British 

 Association Migration Committee. 1 All the materials con- 

 sidered worthy, which appeared in the nine earlier " Migration 

 Reports," had been utilised to the date of the issue of the 

 "Fauna of the Outer Hebrides" in 1888. Since 1888 also 

 the date of the publication of the ninth report subsequent 

 analyses of the later schedules have appeared in the " Annals," 

 under the editorship of Mr. Hinxman and Mr. Laidlaw. 



Our thanks are due to those whose interest in the 

 fauna of the Outer Hebrides has been kept up, and may 

 have been stimulated, by our faunal works. 



Amongst these, we desire to greet our good friend Dr. 

 John M'Rury, a native of the island of Benbecula, whose 

 continuous zeal in observation in Barra for some nine years, 

 where he was also assisted by the Macgillivrays of Eoligary, 

 has greatly extended our knowledge of the bird-fauna of 

 that island. His papers in the " Annals " are very fully 

 referred to in this list and notes. 



An account of the Flannan Isles will be found in the 

 "Scotsman" of 29th December 1900, by " S. M. F.," who 

 visited the islands since the lighthouse was erected. As 

 will be seen in the " Annals," our migration committee have 

 received several schedules from the Flannan Isles, and some 

 of the records will be found in this account. 



The diary of a short residence on St. Kilda, by my 

 friend the late Mr. J. Young, is in my hands. Some notes 

 therefrom will be found below. At the same time, the 

 Brothers Kearton were at St. Kilda, doing beautiful work 

 with camera and note-book, as may be realised by consulting 

 the results in their series of published works, and especially 

 in " With Nature and a Camera," where an excellent account 

 of " St. Kilda and its People " is given in the first chapter, 

 followed by two chapters upon the " Birds and Fowlers of 

 St. Kilda." 



Mr. J. Steele-Elliott spent some three weeks of June i 894 



1 I have examined the only volume of a periodical named " The Scottish 

 Journal of Natural History," published between January and May 1890." It 

 contains nothing relating to the birds of the Outer Hebrides. I have also 

 examined the volumes of the " Scottish Naturalist" for records prior to the date 

 of the issue of the "Fauna of the Outer Hebrides," viz. 1887-88, 1889-90, and 

 1891, and found nothing of importance. 



