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and Mallard also seen, and White Wagtails are 

 plentiful. 



2']tJi August. — Very strong westerly breeze. 



No new birds in. The following observed : — Turn- 

 stones, Knots, Lapwings, Golden Plovers, Willow- 

 Wrens. 



28/// AugiLst. — South-west ; clear. 



Sanderlings, three ; Song-Thrush, one. Many Red- 

 shanks and the two Knots left about this date. 



2gth August. — West breeze ; clear. 



Cormorants, many arrivals for the winter. 



2^ist August. — North-west breeze; clear. 



Ten Lapwings, four Sanderlings, and one Tree-Pipit. 

 Cormorants in numbers seen flying over isle. 



ist September, — One Whinchat. 



2nd September. — North-west breeze ; clear. 



Herons, four ; Teal, one ; Golden Plover, and a 

 Lesser Whitethroat. 



y^d September. — Great Skua seen passing over 

 isle. 



\tJi September. — Wind north-east, chilly ; very cold 

 at night. 



The author landed at Fair Isle in the morning, and 

 In the afternoon had a round of the crofts with George 

 Stout. Visited nests with chicks of the Storm Petrel. 

 They were rugged nurseries amid a chaos of stones. 

 One of the chicks was only a few hours out of the 

 shell, and the mother was in attendance. In the 

 other case the babe was a few days old, and the 

 parents were absent, as in other instances that have 

 come under my notice. An adult female Scarlet 

 Grosbeak, observed on a fence adjoining a field of bere 

 (barley). Its stomach contained grains of bere and a 



