XXll MEMOIR. 



In 1850 he did very little in the way of birds'-ncsting, attending 

 closely to his medical work, in which he had become much interested ; 

 but he kept adding to his collection by correspondence, and he 

 opened communications, which, however, came to nothing, with a 

 gentleman in Newfoundland respecting the former existence on 

 Funk Island of the " Penguin " of those parts, that is to say Alca 

 imjjennis *. At the Cambridge Commencement in July he proceeded 

 to the degree of M.A., and during the meeting of the British Asso- 

 ciation held at Edinburgh he for the first time met his former 

 correspondent, Mr. H. E. Strickland. At the close of the following 

 winter session he, having completed his medical course, quitted the 

 northern capital. 



From a fellow-student (Mr. MacTier, I believe) Wolley received an 

 introduction to the head-forester of Black Mount, famous throughout 

 Scotland for his knowledge of the ways of Deer, and, as it turned 

 out, of Eagles. Accompanied, as before, by Mr. Edge, Wolley, about 

 the middle of April 1851, betook himself to Argyleshire, where they 

 stayed about ten days, visiting, under the guidance of the great 

 Peter Robertson, two occupied nests of the Golden Eagle (§§28,32) 

 and the deserted sites of a good many more f, for the species had 

 formerly been perhaps more numerous in that district than else- 

 where in this island J. They then proceeded to Inverness, and 



* Following Wolley's example, however, I was some years after more fortunate, 

 and thanks to Mr. llegiuald 31. Johnson of Fogo, who interested Bishop Field in 

 the research, I obtained from the latter a natural mummy of the bird from Funk 

 Island (I'roc. Zool. Soc. 1863, pp. 435-438), which, as I knew it had been Wolley's 

 intention to have done, had his efforts been successful, I placed at the disposal of 

 Prof. Owen, who described its skeleton accordingly (Trans. Zool. Soc. v. pp. 317- 

 335, pis. li., Hi.). 



t Two of these were subsequently occupied, and formed the subjects of the two 

 beautiful drawings (Plates F and G) which my good friend, the late Mr. Wolf, 

 after visiting Argyleshire for the purpose, most kindly executed for this work. 



J A curious incident happened in the course of their stay in this district, which 

 I here transcribe from the ' Egg-book,' as there was no convenient place for 

 inserting it in the text, and it seems to deserve publication: — "On Friday, 

 Ap: 25 [1851], as James [Edge] and I were with Carmichael at the top of the 

 eastmost end of Bein Inverveigh above Inveroran, I was looking with James's 

 glass at the top of the highest and furthest peak of Bein Starav, which is near 

 the head of Loch Etive, the low hill which rises by Loch Dochard, called Bein 

 Bensie (Baousi), being directly between us and Loch Duchard itself, just to the 



