STERCORARIUS PARASITICUS. Ba 
but as we hada long day’s work before us, we were not inclined to stop, to watch 
them to it, and so proceeded on our way; but very soon after one of them flew 
back, and Mr. Wolley, turning round to look at it, exclaimed that it was on its 
nest. We accordingly rode back to the spot. The bird did not remain sitting 
very long, but flew to meet us, and, accompanied by its mate, dashed ubout, tum- 
bling on the ground, taking great trouble to make us believe that it was wounded, 
at the same time screaming like a Cat. Both birds were dark brown all over : 
the one we took to be the male had a slight but visible tinge of yellow on his 
cheeks and a longer tail, though nothing like long enough for a Buffon’s Skua, 
and both of us agreed that the birds were without doubt Arctic Gulls. The 
nest was a slight depression in the ground, containing a few bits of dead crow- 
berry or heather sticks. I took the eggs, which were slightly sat on.] 
§ 4708. Pwenty.—Ferée, 1859. From Sysselmand Winther. 
Out of about one hundred and fifty sent, some of which may be 
Whimbrels’. 
[§ 4709. Two.—Unst, oe 
From Mr. James Smith. ] 
[§ 4710. Two.—Unst, 1856. 
[$ 4711. Zwo. 
Loom Bay, Spitsbergen, 11 July, 1873. From 
[§ A712. Two. Mr. A. E. Eaton. 
Mr. Eatsn accompanied Mr. Benjamin Leigh Smith in the ‘ Holus’ on her 
voyage that year, and kindly gave me these on his return, The first pair are 
nearly as big as those of the larger species from Nova Zembla (§§ 4691-4093). | 
[§ 4713. One.—Jura, 22 June, 1890. ‘Saw bird. E. N.” 
For the opportunity of taking this egg in the island, though not the 
precise locality upon it, where Pennant in 1772 found the species breeding 
(Tour in Scotland, ed. 1, p. 216; ed. 2, ii. p. 247), the first time a 
naturalist had known it to do so in the British Islands, my brother Edward 
was indebted to our kind friend Mr. Henry Evans, whose recent death 
(25 July, 1904) is lamented by all who have enjoyed his hospitality both 
ashore and afloat’. We arrived at his house, on the shore of Smail 
Isles Bay, on the 2Ist of June, 1890, and next day, accompanied by Hugh 
McLeod, the under-gamekeeper, my brother set out for the haunt of the 
Skuas. My brother’s narrative is to the following effect :—* We kept on the 
' [For obituary notice by Sir Archibald Geikie, see ‘ Nature,’ Ixx. p, 327.—Ep. ] 
