On the Orcadian Home uf the GarefowL 587 



69. CoLUMBA AKQUATRix Tenim. ; Salvivd. Cat. 13. Brit. 

 Mus. xxi. p. 270 (1893). 



Paliunbus urquutrix Sharpe_, Ibis^ 189.2, p. 518. 

 No. 94, S - Machako's, Sept. 11, 1898. 



Very ^^ild ; common on bushy liills, but hard to get near. 



70. TuRTUii sENEGALENsis (L.) ; Sharpc^ Ibis_, 1892, p. 547. 

 No. 28, c? . Machako's, April 28, 1896. 



Very common. 



71. Pterocles gutturalis Smith; Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, 

 p. 549. 



Nos. 55, 56, (J ? . Near Machako's, July 27, 1896. 



72. Francoli.vus uluensis Ogilvie Grant ; Sharpe, Ibis, 

 1892, p. 551. 



No. 73, ? . Machako's, Sept. 11, 1896. 

 No. 74, ? . „ Sept. 3, 1896. 



No. 83, S ■ „ Oct. 3, 1896. 



73. Pternistes infuscatus Cab.; Sharpe, Ibis, 1892, 

 p. 55.2. 



No. 91, S ■ Machako's, Oct. 1, 1896. 

 Common. 



L. — On the Otxadian Home of the Garefowl (Alca impennis). 

 By Alfred Newton. 



In 1888 Mr. Buckley, one of the authors of the ' Vertebrate 

 Fauna of the Orkney Islands,' made a survey of Papa 

 Westray, being naturally desirous of ascertaining the actual 

 breeding-place — reputed to be thereon — of the extinct species 

 about which so much has been written, and found what 

 struck him " as being very likely indeed for it " [op. cit. 

 p. 249). This was a shelving rock on the west side; but 

 the next year Mr. Harvie-Brown, the other author of that 

 valuable volume, visiting the spot, saw that it was unsuitable ; 

 for the surf, though there was not much wind at the time, 

 ran up the slope, and in a gale would evidently dash against 



