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success for several years. In 1909 Stout left his native 

 island for the first time, and proceeded to Glasgow to enter 

 the establishment of Mr Charles Kirk, the talented taxi- 

 dermist, in whose employ he advanced rapidly as a skilled 

 workman until the call for voluntary military service claimed 

 him. He accompanied the writer to Fair Isle in 1909 and 

 1912, to St Kilda in 1910 and 1911, to Auskerry (Orkney) 

 in 191 3, and, alas, finally to the Butt of Lewis in 191 4. 

 The ten years' experience gained at these great observing 

 stations resulted in Stout's becoming an accomplished 

 field ornithologist, well versed in the peculiarities of the 

 flight and call-notes of migratory birds, especially of the 

 rarer species of passerines, and he was the means of 

 adding the Red-rumped Swallow and the Eastern Short-toed 

 Lark to the British avifauna. George Stout was a man 

 of irreproachable character, amiable in disposition, and 

 indefatigable in the pursuit of nature-knowledge. His loss 

 at the early age of twenty-seven will be greatly deplored by 

 all who knew him. W. E. C. 



WILLIAM TULLOCH. 



By the death of William Tulloch, Scottish Ornithology 

 has lost one of the band of lightkeepers who render it such 

 valuable service. His outstanding ornithological achieve- 

 ment was the capture of the first recorded specimen of the 

 Rustic Bunting in Scotland, this bird appearing at Cape 

 Wrath Lighthouse on nth May 1906 [Annals Scot. Nat. 

 Hist., 1906, p. 138). Besides this, he kept notes for many 

 years for the Report on Scottish Ornithology, and his carefully 

 kept records helped much in the compilation of these 

 Reports. William Tulloch came of a much respected family; 

 his father was a Principal Lightkeeper, and his brothers-in- 

 law too are in the Lighthouse Service. He was a man of 

 a kindly disposition and of considerable intellectual ability, 

 and at the time that ill-health compelled him to retire was 

 Principal Lightkeeper at Ardnamurchan Lighthouse. 



L. J. R. and E. V. B. 



