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Fulmar Petrels nesting at Stronsay, Orkney. — Having 

 read the account in the Scottish Naturalist of the spread of the 

 Fulmar Petrel, I have been on the lookout for them this spring, and 

 about two months ago saw about a dozen of these birds circling 

 about Burghead, a point not indicated in the map issued along 

 with the account. On Tith July I succeeded in obtaining one of 

 their eggs — proof positive that they are nesting here. I don't think 

 they have ever nested here before, as none of the local men knew 

 the egg ; but some of them, who had been fishermen about twenty 

 years ago, said that they had often seen the bird, which they call 

 the Mollymawk, when out fishing to the eastward, but never on the 

 land; which seems to indicate that a new colony is being started 

 here. — T. Sinclair, Whitehall, Stronsay. 



Herons nesting in Orkney. — In Mr Boyd Watt's list of 

 Scottish Heronries and notes of others by various correspondents, 

 no mention is made of the Herons which nest regularly on the cliffs 

 of Orkney and have been evidently long established there. — H. W. 

 Robinson, Lancaster. 



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