

The Scottish Natural 



No. 6.] 1912 [June 



THE FULMAR: ITS PAST AND PRESENT DIS- 

 TRIBUTION AS A BREEDING SPECIES IN 

 THE BRITISH ISLES. 



By J. A. Harvie-Brown, LL.D., F.R.S.E. 



TO OUR READERS 



A Revised Version of the Map illustrating 

 Dr Harvie-Brown'S paper on "The Fulmar," 

 and forming Plate IV., is issued in the present 

 number. 



The Map published in the May number 

 should be cancelled. 



Also, in July 1902, Mr Thos. Tait of Inverurie saw about 

 a dozen pairs in all flying close about the high cliffs of 

 Clomore, and reported the same to Harvie-Brown. This 

 was noted at the time in the Ann. Scot. Nat Hist, 1902, 

 p. 253, and again referred to in the Fauna of the North-west 

 Highlands and Skye, 1904, p. 360. 



In 1 90 1 and 1902, however, Harvie-Brown failed to see 

 or hear of any Fulmars at Cape Wrath, and was assured 

 that there were none there by the lightkeeper ; but in 1904, 



1 Vide Vertebrate Fauna of Sutherland, &C, 1887, p. 169. 

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