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Harking back a little in time; on the 10th of July 1900, 1 

 Howard Saunders and Mr Henry Evans, when on board the 

 s.y. Aster, saw Fulmars go up to the grassy slopes of 

 "Cape Wrath" (recte = Clomore), vide Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist., 

 1 90 1, p. 50. Though actual proof is wanting, it may be safely 

 considered that occupation of Clomore Cliffs took place 

 about 1897, or even earlier. 



The next fixed record for the north coast of Scotland is 

 to the eastward, at Dunnet Head, in Caithness. Dunnet 



Stack Clo-Kearvaig) Clomore. 



Head was colonised by the Fulmars as follows : — The first 

 seen were three birds frequenting the cliffs below the light- 

 house in 1900, in the month of May, and in February 1901 

 ten birds were counted. Every year since they have in- 

 creased in numbers. They were seen nowhere but at these 

 cliff-faces below the lighthouse till 1904. In that year there 



1 Not in 1898, as, by a slip, was entered in Harvie-Brown's Fauna of 

 the North-west Highlands and Skye, p. 356 — although in that year also 

 (1898) Howard Saunders was on board Mr H. Evans' yacht at the same 

 time that Prof. Newton was, and visited Handa. 



