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3. On August 19th, 1881, about 2,300 Gannets, mostly 

 flying east, were roughly counted between daylight and dark 

 by another of Mr. Harvie-Brown's correspondents, as they 

 flew past Pentland Skerries, which lie between the Orkney 





Islands and Caithness.* I have ascertained that the wind 

 on that day was registered in the north of Scotland as 

 E.N.E., force 2. 



4. Again, on the 3rd, 4th and 5th August, 1881, Gannets 

 in thousands passed Rhu Stoir on the west coast of Suther- 



* "Report," 1881, p. 11. 



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