392 ~ ALCA TROILE. 
those I took with my own hand and those I watched; but it does 
not signify. One only is certain ‘to have been seen and taken by 
me‘. All the pencil inscription was put on them directly they 
were got. Two are perfectly certain as taken or watched by myself. 
Two others were taken by myself after I had killed the two old 
Ringed birds at one shot, but as there were also unringed birds 
sitting close by, and as I broke one or two eggs with the shot, 
I cannot be so confident of. these. 
[Mr. Wolley’s opinion on this subject is briefly expressed to the same effect 
in his “ Observations on the Birds of the Ferée Islands,” read before the 
British Association at its meeting at Edinburgh in 1850, and subsequently 
printed in Sir William Jardine’s ‘Contributions to Ornithology’ for that year 
(pp. 111, 112). He also published in ‘The Zoologist’ for 1852 (pp. 8477- 
3479) some admirable remarks with much fuller particulars. No one after 
reading them should have had any doubt as to the specific invalidity of the 
“ Ringed ” Guillemot. | 
§ 4867. Zwo.—lsle of May, 1850. 
In a visit to the Isle of May with a party from North Berwick 
(on which occasion we got over to Cellardykes in a fog), I had an 
opportunity of seeing the Bass Rock mode of climbing. Adams 
[the keeper of the Bass Rock] planted his feet firmly against a stone, 
and let down the climber with a rope twice twisted round his waist, 
while another rope, called the hand rope, was fastened round 
Adams’s waist for the climber to assist in hauling himself up. 
Mr. Calder went down and gathered eggs of the Kittiwake [$ 4654] 
and Guillemot, of which I have two to ‘shew the station.” We had 
very little time on the island. 
§ 4868. Four.—Shetland, 1850. From Dr. Frere. . 
(These almost certainly sent by Mr. James Smith from Unst (cf. § 4675). ] 
§ 4869. One—From Mr. William Dunbar, 1851. 
§ 4870. Zhree-—Vardo Islands, East Finmark, 1855. ‘‘ Bird , 
seen.” 
(‘Taken by Mr. Wolley and marked “ Common Guillemot”, but not entered 
in the Egg-book. | 
' {Itis marked “Rd. Guillemot. Bird seen. on when J. W. was on the same 
ledge.” ‘Two others are marked “ Ringed Guillemot—seen on.”—Ep. ] 
