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LIBRARY 



The Scottish Naturali 



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. 



( Concluded front p. 102.) 



North Coast of the Mainland of Scotland. 



Still following the geographical sequence from north to 

 south, we now take up the occupation of the north coast of 

 Scotland. 



On 19th and 30th June 1897, Mr W. Eagle Clarke, when 

 on board the lighthouse s.s. Pharos, saw several Fulmars 

 flying in company with other rock-birds to the east of Cape 

 Wrath, as recorded by him in Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist, for that 

 year, p. 254. This refers with little doubt to the 600-feet 

 cliffs of Clomore, which extend for a stretch of some three 

 miles between Cearvaig Bay and Garbh Island — the former 

 eyrie-holding site of the White-tailed Eagles, of which one 

 of the old birds of the pair was shot by John Colquhoun. 1 



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 1901 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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