ALCA TROILE. 395 
Taken by a boy, George Stout, and obtained by Mr. Kinnear during his 
stay on the island with Mr, W. Eagle Clarke (cf. Ann, Scott. Nat. Hist. 1906). 
A dark-coloured variety. ] 
[§ 4889. Hve—Flamborough, June, 1834. ‘“C. Waterton.” 
From Mr. Waterton’s Collection, through Dr. Norman 
Moore, 1906. 
These were given to Dr. Moore, as he informs me, by Mr. Waterton in 1864, 
the year before he died, and are all inscribed by him. Unfortunately they 
are so discoloured as to possess little value except that of sentiment, for 
they were all taken and inscribed by him during his visit to the Yorkshire 
cliffs in the first week of June 1834, as recounted by him the following year 
(Mag. Nat. Hist. viii. pp. 162-165), It is curious that from the time of 
Pennant (‘Tour in Scotland, 1769,’ ed. 1771, p.15) no zoologist seems to have 
published any notice of the locality and the birds which throng it in the 
breeding-season until Waterton did so. Pennant was there 3 July, 1769, but 
his account was passed oyer by all his successors, and thus by far the greatest 
resort of sea-fowl on the English coast remained practically unknown until the 
appearance of Waterton’s paper, which was subsequently included in his 
‘Essays on Natural History,’ and having been several times reprinted there is 
no need to quote from it here, but it may be remarked that, according to 
Mr. J. Stuart Menteath (Mag. Nat. Hist. viii, p. 31), Waterton was let down 
the cliff eleven times. Deplorable as is the condition of the eggs, it can be 
seen that his selection of specimens to shew the chief varieties was good, and 
one of them from its size and shape is unlike any other that I have seen, 
measuring 2°55 by 1:94 in., while 3:25 by 29 in. may be taken as the average 
dimensions. I am indebted to Mr. Harting for a reference to an older notice 
than Pennant’s of the “ Whillocks” and other sea-fowl at Flamborough, 
contained in a letter from Dr. Richard Richardson (1663-1721), of North 
Bierley in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to Dr. James Sherard, the botanist, 
dated 7 January 1724-5, and printed in ‘ Extracts from the Correspondence’ 
of the former (pp. 216, 217) which appeared in 1855, with a preface and notes 
by Mr. Dawson Turner. } 
[§ 4890. Mowr.—Farallones, California. From Dr. Heermann. 
[§ 4891. Two.—Farallones. From Dr. Heermann, 1861. 
[§ 4892. One.—Farallones. From the Smithsonian Institution, 
through Prof. Baird, 1870. 
The note accompanying this egg shews that it was obtained by Dr. Griiber. 
It will be seen that all the specimens in §§ 4890-4892 belong to the so-called 
Catarractes californicus of Bryant, which is now admitted by American autho- 
rities not to differ specifically from the Atlantic Colymbus trotle of Linnzus. | 
