CATALOGUE OF BIRDS. 189 



The immature male and the female were shot in 

 Perthshire, in 1867. The adult male in Inverness- 

 shire, in March, 1878.* 



LITTLE GULL.— (Immature.) 



Case 245. 



This Gull is occasionally, during autumn and winter, 

 far from uncommon on the eastern coast. 



The specimen in the case was shot on Horsey Mere, 

 in the east of Norfolk, in November, 1871. 



PUFFIN. 



Case 246. 



The home of this curious-looking bird is far from 

 land, on the "rolling deep." 



It is only for a few months during spring and 

 summer that it approaches our shores for the purpose 

 of rearing its young ; unless wounded, or in some way 

 disabled, it is seldom seen during winter. 



The Puffin breeds in a variety of situations ; holes 

 in cliffs, rabbit-burrows, and ruined buildings being 

 occasionally made use of. 



The sketch from which the case is copied was taken 

 from the old fortifications on the Bass Rock. The 

 Puffin here nests in the holes in the crumbling 

 masonry of the battlements. 



The specimens were obtained in the Firth of Forth, 

 in June, 1865. 



^^ At the time the above notes were published I was not aware 

 that the Goosander nested regularly in the British Islands. 



