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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF AILSA CRAIG. 



XX. Monipennie, John (circa 1597). The Abridgement or Summarie 



of the Scots Chronicles, with a Short Description, etc. , etc. ( 1 820). 

 Notice of Ailsa, page 1 75. 



XXI. Monro, Donald (circa 1549). A Description of the Western 

 Isles of Scotland called Hebrides (1884 Reprint). Short notice 

 of " Elsay ;" cod, ling and white fishing mentioned, p. 14. 



XXII. Murray, John. "The Clyde Sea- Area, with Map." Batters, 

 E. A. L. "Hand-List of the Algae." Reprinted from the 

 Journal of Botany for 1891. Pp. 1-25 contain a few Ailsa 

 records : includes a list of papers published on the Clyde Sea- 

 Area. 



XXIII. Pennant, Thomas. A Tour in Scotland and a Voyage to the 



Hebrides, 1772. Part I. 2nd ed. (1776) pp. 215-8 contain 

 account of a visit to Ailsa on 25th June, 1772, naming goats, 

 rabbits, some birds (including sea-pies nesting, also hooded 

 crows!, and three "reptiles" (molluscs); plate 14 gives two 

 views of the "crag of Ailsa." 



XXIV. Reports on the Movement and Occurrence of Birds 



in Scotland. Annals of Scot. Nat. Hist. (1894-5-6-7). 

 Returns of Migratory Birds from Ailsa for four years, by Mr. W. 

 A. Tulloch, Light-keeper. 



XXV. Rose, George. " Bird-nesting and Egg-collecting." Annals of 

 Glenfield Ramblers' Society, Kilmarnock (1898). Pp. 47-50 

 contain account of a visit to Ailsa. 



XXVI. Scott, Thomas. ' ' The Invertebrate Fauna of the Inland Waters 

 of Scotland." Part VIII. Sixteenth Annual Report of the 

 Fishery Board for Scotland, i8gj (1898). Paragraph on Garry 

 Loch p. 250 : records included in next entry. 



XXVII. Scott, Thomas. " Notes on the Micro- Fauna of Ailsa Craig, 

 Firth of Clyde." Trans. Nat. Hist. Socy. Glasgow (1898). 

 V. (N.S.) pp. 153-8 contain account of two short visits and 

 observations ; 5 Mollusca and one var., 6 Crustacea and 8 

 Insecta named in list. 



XXVIII. Smith, John. "Ailsa Craig." Ardrossan and Saltcoats Herald 

 (8th and 15th December, 1893). Narrative of our visit on 

 3rd June, 1893. 



XXIX. Statistical Account of Scotland (179 i). I. p. 104, under 

 Ballantrae, mentions Ailsa as uninhabited ; names sea-fowl, 

 solan-geese, rabbits and "goats. N.B. — In the new Statistical 

 Acccntnt (1845) is no natural history from Ailsa. 



XXX. Steel, James. "Report on a visit made to Ailsa Craig on 5th 

 June, 1884." Proc. Nat. Hist. Socy. Glasgow (1886) I. (N.S.) 

 p. XXX. 



XXXI. Thompson, William. The Natural Histoiy of Ireland (1849 

 et. sea.). Contains occasional references to Ailsa; little auks 

 seen 19th May, 1849. 



XXXII. Walker, Theodore C. "Remarks on the Birds of Ailsa Craig." 

 The Zoologist (1868) XXVI. pp. 1365-73. Visit in June, 1866 ; 

 great black-backed gull and shag found nesting in addition to 

 species named on pp. 142-5 ante ; also storm-petrel reported. 



