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of the fishermen on my last visit to that Island. 

 I had not time then to visit the place, and on former 

 visits I must quite have overlooked it. Captain 

 Huhbach, however, kindly promised that he would 

 visit the spot, and soon after I left, about the 

 middle of June, 1878, he did so, and his account to 

 me was as follows : — " I have been twice along the 

 cliffs with my glass, but have not seen either a 

 Guillemot or Eazorbill. An old boatman here tells 

 me that he took their eggs off the rocks at the 

 French side of Alderney last year (1877), and that 

 they bred there every year. He describes the eggs 

 as ' the same blue and green and white ones with 

 black spots that are on the Ortack Rock.' " This 

 ver}^ much confirms what Mr. Gallienne says, in 

 his notes to Professor Ansted's list — " The Eazorbill 

 and Guillemot breed on the Ortack Rock and on the 

 cliffs at Alderney." This Ortack Rock is to the 

 west of Alderney, between Burhou and the Caskets, 

 and a considerable number of Guillemots and 

 Razorbills breed there, but it is not to be compared 

 as a breeding station for these birds with those at 

 Lundy Island and South Wales. During the 

 summer a few Guillemots, probably non-breeding 

 birds, may be seen at sea round Guernse}^ and 

 one or two stragglers may generally be seen when 

 crossing from Guernsey to Sark or Herm. I have 

 never seen the variety called the Ringed Guillemot, 

 Alca Jacrf/wans, in the Channel Islands, l)ut, as it 



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