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10 October. Calm and warm until the afternoon, when a 

 fresh breeze arose, S.E.-S.S.W. 59° 38' N., 3° 11' E. 



We were further from the laud to-day, aud few birds 

 were observed. One or two Fulmars were with us from 

 time to time, I observed one of these birds zigzagging 

 nifethodically across our broad wake and alighting on the 

 Mater whenever it espied a morsel of food. In calm 

 weather the Fulmars never seem to beat the water with 

 their feet. One or two Gannets were seen in the distance. 

 Guillemots, Razorbills, and Puffins were still numerous, 

 but there were not quite so many as on the preceding day. 

 A few Kittiwakes were in our wake occasionally. 



In the afternoon a male Chaffinch {Frinf/illa coelchs) 

 appeared, and began to search, as if for food, on the 

 quarter-deck. I brought up some crumbs, which were 

 evidently found to its satisfaction, for it held up its head 

 and loudly uttered call-notes several times. ]\Ieeting with 

 no response, it flew off to the forward part of the ship, and 

 in about five minutes returned with its mate, when they 

 began to feed together. We were just out of siglit of land 

 at this time. 



15 October. 



There was no change in the number of gulls at Cromarty. 

 Two Greater Black-backed Gulls {Larus marinus) were also 

 seen. 



16 October. Cloudy, rather cold, calm ; liglit wind S.E.-S.W. 



59° 53' N., 0° 33' E. 



No birds were seen during the forenoon except a few 

 Kittiwakes. In the afternoon there were about a dozen 

 Fulmars and twenty Kittiwakes, one of the latter being an 

 immature bird which continually uttered a low piping note. 



One Hedge-Sparrow (^Accentor modularis), one Goldfinch 

 (subsp. ?), and two Blackbirds {Turdus merula) were flying 

 round the ship at noon. 



17 October. Cold, calm; light wind S.W.-S.E. 61°51'N., 



0° 32' E. 

 About twenty Fulmars and a few Kittiwakes followed all 



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