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§ 4695. Ove—From Mr. Tuke, 1847. 
§ 4696. Ziwo.—Noss, Shetland, 19 June, 1849. ‘J. W. apse.” 
I found a nest of this bird, or rather a pair of eggs, in the island 
of Noss. They had large young ones inside, and the grass upon 
which they were laid was yellow from the shadow of the bird’, as 
in the case of the Black-throated Divers’ on Loch Shin [14 May, 
1849}. The old birds threw themselves into the most drunken or 
death-like agonies possible, opening their mouths, gasping—all of 
a heap, wings broken, and so on. I saw many of the birds here, and 
off Scalloway, as well as in Feerée, where also I saw these manceuvres ; 
but I could find no more eggs. I shot three or four “ Scoutie-allens ” 
in Noss—a brown one was a male, and so was a white-bellied one. 
Two of the brown ones turned out to be females. 
§ 4697. One.—Ferie, 1849. From Judge Tillisch. 
Plentiful in Ferde. I shot many of both varieties. They did not 
seem to me to breed so decidedly in companies as the Great Skua, 
but were rather scattered. On the 3rd of July, Judge Tillisch gave 
me an egg which he had himself taken—the day before, I think. 
§ 4698. Zwo.—Orkney, 1850. From Mr. George Harvey, 
of Stromness. 
There are five in Mr. Harvey’s list, but only two of these are 
decided by me without hesitation. Tue other two with Black-headed 
Gulls’ in company, and a recollection of the Whimbrel, are not at 
present quite self-evident to me. 
§ 4699. Twenty-eight.—Verée, 1850. From Sysselmand 
Winther. 
Mr. Winther sent me thirty-one eggs, but as they were not all named 
there is one doubtful to me whether or not it is a Whimbrel’s. 
* Qu, vather from the heat of the incubating bird ?—Ep. | 
