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Gannets nested on Eigg and Rum, two islands which 

 He on the west coast of Inverness-shire. It is true that of 

 Rum, or Ronin, as he calls it, Munro merely says : — " Ronin 

 . . . maney solan geise are in this ile," and of Eigg, No. 104 

 of his Hst of islands, he says very Uttle more. " Egga. 

 North from Elian Murchd be foure myles, lyes ane iyle 

 called iyle of Egga, foure myle lange and twa myle braid, 

 guid maine land with a Paroch Kirk in it and maney 

 Solane geese, and verey guid for store [i.e., pasture] namelie 

 for sheip, with a haven for heighland boths [boats]." 

 John Monipennie in his " Abridgement or Summarie of 

 the Scots Chronicles," 1597, a work of little authority, has 

 the same information, but he is merely repeating in different 

 words what he culled from Munro, and it is unnecessary to 

 quote from him further. It may be added that no hint is 

 given of Gannets having ever nested in Eigg in modern times 

 by Mr. Evans,* or by the Messrs. Macpherson,t in their 

 accounts of the birds of this island. 



Among the many documents collected by Mr. G. G. Smith 

 in "The Book of Islay " (1895) no mention is found of 

 Solan Geese, nor is it likely that they ever bred on Islay, 

 although in 1 703 Martin had written of the Solan Geese and 

 Culterneb [Puffin] as being most numerous on that island. J 



* " Proc. Royal Physical Soc, Edinburgh," 1885, p. 443. 



t " Zoologist," 1888, p. 412. 



X " Western Islands of Scotland," ]>. 227. 



