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person soon, who quite understands eggs, although he is unacquainted 
with their relative value, and I merely send him a five pound note or 
so for the contents of his box.” 
§ 4674. Tico.—Unst, 1846. From Mr. Tuke, 1847. 
Valuable and interesting as British, and from so good an authority. 
§ 4675. Two.—Unst, 1849. From Dr. Frere. 
These were kindly given to me by Dr. Frere, “as a bribe,” so he 
playfully expressed himself, to prevent my telling of his friend the 
schoolmaster in Unst, Mr. James Smith, from whom he obtained 
them. I have other eggs from the same locality presented to me by 
Mr. Tuke [§§ 4673, 4674]. In 1848 Mr. Edmondston referred me to 
Mr. Smith if I wished for eggs. I heard in Unst that the Skuas had 
been reduced to a single pair by the rapacity of skin-eollectors ; but 
they had been recovered by a vigorous effort of the proprietors. 
Dr. Frere wrote: “ I don’t know that my Skuas’ are Mr. Edmondston’s 
.«... but I am afraid my collector lives very near his birds, 
though he collected from other islands as well. I should be sorry to 
get him into any trouble that he may not deserve.” 
§ 4676. Five—Unst, 1850, 1851. From Mr. James Smith, 
through Dy. Frere, 1851. 
These I value as British specimens from Uust. 
§ 4677. Fifteen —Sandoe, Feroe, 1 July, 1849. 
We visited three of the breeding-places of this bird in Ferée— 
Sandoée, Viderée, and Lille Dimon ; Sysselmand Miller mentioned 
other stations to us. On the Ist of July, we [Mr. James Edge and 
Mr. Wolley! with the two Sysselmen to the Skuas [in Sandée], 
and find fifteen or sixteen eggs. I take nearly all, but myself 
find only two nests. ‘There were ten nests in all—some hard-set, 
others fresh. Very light-coloured eggs are said to be those of the 
second or third laying, not bleached as Mr. Hewitson thought. In 
one instance, at least, | found a dark and a light egg in the same 
nest. Never more than one or two eggs inanest. The nest, a large 
we:l-formed depression in the moss, with the herbage around it 
