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nesting on the Skelligs of Co. Kenyj and that the colony- 

 has (in 1914) increased to about seventy pairs. He also 

 states on the authority o£ Mr. McGiuley, the light-keeper, 

 that the Gannets on Little Skellig are very rapidly in- 

 creasing. Their numbers are estimated at 15,000 to 20,000, 

 and it is probably the largest colony in western Europe. 



A sympathetic memoir on Major Barrett Hamilton, 

 accompanied by a portrait and a full bibliography, is 

 contributed from the pen of Mr. C. B. Moffat. 



Scottish Naturalist. 



[The Scottisli Naturalist. Nos. 25-36, Jan.-Dec. 1914.] 



Under the able editorship of Messrs. Eagle Clarke, 

 William Evans, and Percy H. Grimshaw, the ' Scottish 

 Naturalist ' continues to supply its readers with numerous 

 articles on various branches of the natural history of Scot- 

 land. Most of the ornithological papers deal with migration 

 and are either written or inspired by Mr. Eagle Clarke ; he 

 has found a new " Heligoland '' at Auskerry, one of the 

 most easterly of the Orkneys. It is lowlying, uninhabited, 

 and only about 260 acres in extent, and has hardly any 

 cover ; in spite of this it is largely resorted to by migrating 

 birds. Mr. Eagle Clarke spent some five weeks there in 

 the autumn of 1913 and had very good results, observing 

 altogether some 104 species ; among them tiie Scarlet Gros- 

 beak, Short-toed Lark, Ked-throated Pipit, Dusky Willow- 

 warbler, Yellow-browed Warbler, are all new to the Orkney 

 Islands. Mr. Clarke also paid a visit to Fair Isle, and from 

 his observations and those of the Duchess of Bedford and 

 Mr. Wilson, seven additional species, iu eluding Lanius minor 

 and (Edicnemus osdicnemus, have been added to the list of 

 migrants passing that tiny islet. 



Mr. C. G. Cash reprints with additions and corrections his 

 history of the Ospreys at Loch an Eilein, in Inverness-shire. 

 It is a sad story of ruthless persecution continued over a 

 long series of years and has resulted in the final extermina- 

 tion of the Osprey as a British breeding-bird. The last year 

 in which the Ospreys hatched out successfully was apparently 



