NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 189 



GLAUCOUS GULL. 



Larus glaucus, 0. F. Midler. 



This species did not appear in any great numbers on our coasts 

 this winter. A fine adult male was received by Mr. A. Brother- 

 ston — in full winter plumage — which was shot on The Magdalene 

 Fields, Berwick \op. cit., A. Brotherston]. 



In the early autumn of 1879 Glaucous Gulls appeared at 

 Kincardine on Forth. One was shot and another seen on the 1st 

 and 3rd September by Mr. Arthur Dundas, Carron Hall. 



ICELAND GULL. 



Lakus leucopterus, Faber. 



In Mr. Small's shop, Edinburgh, on the 12th May, I saw, in the 

 flesh, an immature Iceland Gull, which had been shot in the Firth 

 of Forth. The wings and tail were very much shattered by the 

 shot, but were also very much abraided, so that it had almost the 

 appearance of an escaped bird, possibly from some one of the 

 whaling vessels returning from the sealing. It was described as 

 " very tame," which is quite the reverse of our experience of them 

 in our seas on a former season [v. Proceedings, 1872-73, p. 210]. 



SKUA. 



Stercorarius, sp. ? 

 An unusually large migration of Skuas (Lestridae of four species) 

 will come to be spoken of more fully in my next report and in 

 another place besides. Meanwhile it is sufficient to record here 

 that they appeared in October and November at a great many 

 localities along our east coast. I have records of a great number; 

 twenty-six Pomatorhine Skuas came to one birdstuffer alone in 

 three weeks, shot in the Firth of Forth. A few, comparatively, 

 also occurred on the west coast and islands. 



TERN. 



Sterxus, sp. ? 



The destruction of Terns' eggs is really deplorable, besides tha 

 of almost every other species which breeds upon Tent's Muir, in 

 Fife. Not for the first time in his letters to me does Mr. Hender- 

 son, of Dundee, describe the awful mischief committed on this 

 breeding haunt by boys who come out from Dundee and elsewhere, 

 and harry the nests, and destroy wholesale all the eggs they come 

 across. Mr. Henderson states that the Terns are "positively 



