2o8 ANNALS OF SCOTTISH NATURAL HISTORY 



PuFFiNUS ANGLORUM (Manx Shearwater), — Flying about the lantern 

 at Skerryvore on 20th April. Appeared within the Sound of 

 Mull, opposite the entrance to Loch Sunart, on loth August, 

 in unprecedentedly large numbers — several hundreds. " There 

 is not much contraction of the wings when this species dives 

 or rather plunges in at an acute angle. It emerges with 

 wings outspread and usually proceeds to flight at once, so that 

 the instant cannot be definitely stated when progress in the one 

 element has ceased and commencement made in the other " 

 (D. Macdonald). On ist August at least a hundred in Firth 

 of Forth (Fife). On 31st August a good many as far up as 

 Inchkeith and close to Leith. 



Corrections. — P. 135, under P. rufus insert "Lerwick" before "district"; 

 p. 137, under A. pratensis for "fourteen nesting" read "fourteen, 

 nestling." 



Acknowledgments for assistance are due to the follow- 

 ing among others : — In the Northern group of localities — 

 The Lightkeepers, Sule Skerry ; John B. Henderson, 

 Tarbetness Lighthouse ; J. R. Lawrence, Pentland Skerries ; 

 John S. TuUoch, Lerwick ; T. Henderson, jun., Spiggie. On 

 the East of Scotland — Annie C. Jackson, Swordale ; Lewis 

 Dunbar, Thurso ; the Lightkeepers, Bell Rock ; Thos. F. 

 Dewar, M.D. D.Sc, Forfar ; W. F. Little, Crosswood 

 Reservoir, West Calder ; Wm. Evans, Edinburgh ; William 

 Binnie, Edinburgh ; S. E. Brock, Kirkliston ; Rev. W. Serle, 

 Duddingston ; Rev. H. N. Bonar, Saltoun ; Leonora Jeffrey 

 Rintoul, Lahill, Largo ; Evelyn V. Baxter, Gilston, Colins- 

 burgh ; W. M. Inglis, North Berwick. In the West and 

 South- West — Robert Anderson, Flannan Islands ; James 

 Tomison, Skerryvore ; D. Macdonald, Tobermory ; Hugh 

 S. Gladstone, Capenoch, Thornhill ; Robert Service, Dum- 

 fries ; Lady Fowler and family, Inverbroom ; James Bar- 

 tholomew, Beattock ; T. Thornton Mackeith, Caldwell and 

 Loch Libo ; John Robertson, Robert Wilson, Thomas Wilson, 

 Alexander Ross, Glasgow ; John Craig, Beith ; Chas. Berry, 

 Lendalfoot ; Dr. Niel Fullarton, Lamlash ; Rev. J. D. W. 

 Gibson, Carmichael. 



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